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The mature harp seal has pure black eyes. It has a silver-gray fur covering its body, with black harp or wishbone-shaped markings dorsally.Adult harp seals grow to be 1.7 to 2.0 m (5 ft 7 in to 6 ft 7 in) long and weigh from 115 to 140 kg (254 to 309 lb). [1]
Freshwater seals are pinnipeds which live in freshwater bodies. The group is paraphyletic in nature, the uniting factor being the environment in which these pinnipeds live. The vast majority of all modern seals live solely in saltwater habitats though this is likely due to the rarity of sufficiently large freshwater bodies rather than the ...
Along the coast of California is the California sea lion, which can grow up to seven feet long and can be found in shallow ocean water, near beaches, and among rocks. In the open ocean is the northern elephant seal , which grows up to a massive 14 feet (4.3 metres) and has a population of just over 150,000. [ 3 ]
The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Baltic ...
The Elkhorn Slough State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) covers 0.09 square miles (0.23 km 2). It includes the waters below mean high tide within Elkhorn Slough: east of the Highway 1 Bridge and; west of longitude 121° 46.40’ W. The SMR and the SMCA were both established in September 2007 by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CA ...
The now-healthy harp seal traveled to Liverpool, Nova Scotia. He was released on April 8 in Brigantine after six weeks of care. Harp seal rescued near death at Shore travels 600 miles to Canada ...
November 3, 1987. The Kings River (Spanish: Río de los Santos Reyes), is a 132.9-mile (213.9 km) [ 2 ] river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one of the deepest river ...
The Carmel River (Rumsen: tirus ua čorx) [ 4 ] is a 41 mi (66 km) [ 5 ] river on the Central Coast of California in Monterey County that originates in the Ventana Wilderness of the Santa Lucia Mountains. [ 3 ] The river flows northwest through Carmel Valley with its mouth at the Pacific Ocean south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, at Carmel Bay.