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Hooded seal, Cystophora cristata
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Where are they found? Asia, Europe, North America ...
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Hooded seal - CYSTOPHORA CRISTATA
Possibly Endangered
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Meat-eating Mammals (Carnivora)
Family: Phocidae.
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Information on the hooded seal is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly
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Hooded seal
Order : Carnivora
Family : Phocidae
Genus : Cystophora
Facts about the genus Cystophora, the hooded seal ...
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Hooded seals are named for the bi-lobed hood-an enlargement of the nasal cavity on the heads of males. The male can inflate the hood and move air back and forth between the two lobes.
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Hooded Seal
Order: Carnivora
Family: Phocidae
Cystophora cristata - female and pup on ice floe; males in water, from left to right: normal, extruded nasal septum, and inflated hood
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The Hooded Seal, Cystophora cristata, is sometimes found on the Atlantic coast. It normally lives along the coast from Labrador to Greenland but occasionally wanders as far south as Florida.
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Hooded sealAn arctic seal in which males have a bizarre inflatable 'hood' on their heads, and can also inflate their nasal cavity out through their nostrils like a red balloon. Hourglass, Wilson's dolphin ...
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There are seven species of seals in Canada; the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina), the harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata), ...
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A fourth group includes the elephant seal and hooded seal. There are two elephant seal species, one of the Northern and one of the Southern Hemisphere. They are distinguished by their immense size and trunklike snouts.
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Zoo scientists discovered that hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) nurse for only four days-the shortest known lactation period of any mammal.
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Their primary prey is the ringed seal though they also take bearded, harp and hooded seals and the occasional walrus youngster. They will also scavenge walrus and whale carcasses.
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The length of lactation in phocids ranges from 28 days in the Northern Elephant Seal to just 3-5 days in the Hooded Seal. The nursing period is ended by the mother, who departs to sea and leaves her pup at the breeding site.
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The gray seal, Halichoerus grypus, and the hooded seal, Cystophora cristata, are larger, and are also found in Arctic waters. The monk seal, Monachus monachus, is found in the Mediterranean and Black seas, and another species, M.
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Northern Harrier - 1 female near Fantinis Restaurant in Seabrook Merlin - 1 sitting on Tree Swallow box in Hampton marshes Most noteworthy was a young HOODED SEAL seen on the docks at the Wentworth Marina.
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 See also: Whale, Walrus, Sea Lion, Pinniped, Squid
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