A Fish Finder for Seals.(facts about harbor seals)

Weekly Reader, Edition 2 (including Science Spin);  October 5, 2001 ;     80 words ...How do harbor seals find food in dark, murky ocean waters? Scientists say that harbor seals use their whiskers. Harbor seals' whiskers are quick to notice changes in...tell if something is swimming nearby. So harbor seals can easily find fish to eat, even if they can't see ...

Harbor seal pups recover, return to Bohai Bay shore

China Daily;  March 1, 2007 ;   Wu Yong;   356 words ......identified it as a newborn harbor seal. Harbor seals are found north of the...major breeding grounds for harbor seals and said he expected...Each year people find harbor seal pups onshore and pick them...were found. "If you see a harbor seal pup alone on a ...

Harbor seal pupping season begins

Oakland Tribune;  February 11, 2008 ;   Julia Scott;   753 words ......THE GENTLE, timid harbor seals left park rangers...round population of harbor seals will grow by close...distance whenever the harbor seals are out on the three-mi...nursing cries of newborn harbor seal pups, who make the...dark. About 7,000 harbor seals ...

Harbor seals continue to risk ocean beach dangers

Oakland Tribune;  February 11, 2008 ;   Julia Scott;   755 words ......distance whenever the harbor seals are on the three-mi...cries of newborn harbor seal pups, which makes...dark. About 7,000 harbor seals bask year-round...of the state's harbor seal population. That...was disbanded. Harbor seals aren't ...

Rangers warn public to avoid young seals

Oakland Tribune;  February 12, 2008 ;   Julia Scott;   754 words ......distance whenever the harbor seals are out on the...cries of newborn harbor seal pups, who say...dark. About 7,000 harbor seals bask year-round...of the state's harbor seal population. That...disbanded in 2001. Harbor seals aren't necessarily...frustrated ...

Seals ready to start pupping season

Oakland Tribune;  February 11, 2008 ;   Julia Scott;   745 words ......distance whenever the harbor seals are out on the...cries of newborn harbor seal pups, who make...dark. About 7,000 harbor seals bask year-round...of the state's harbor seal population. That...disbanded in 2001. Harbor seals aren't necessarily...frustrated ...

Seals ready for pupping season

Oakland Tribune;  February 11, 2008 ;   Julia Scott;   756 words ......distance whenever the harbor seals are out on the...cries of newborn harbor seal pups, who make...dark. About 7,000 harbor seals bask year-round...of the state's harbor seal population. That...disbanded in 2001. Harbor seals aren't necessarily...frustrated ...

KIDS' SEAL OF APPROVAL ; Spend an afternoon shadowing a seal trainer at...

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  January 26, 2008 ;   JODY FEINBERG;   731 words ...Sitting on a ledge next to the harbor seal Amelia, 12-year-old Oonagh...and personal with the seven harbor seals and three fur seals at the...lots of questions about the harbor seals, plump seals with soulful...help trainers entertain the harbor seals, called Get Up Close ...

SEAL PROGRAM MAKES A SPLASH.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

The Virginian Pilot;  June 17, 2004 ;     787 words ......Marine Science Museum's Harbor Seal Splash last week, Back, 40, had never palpitated a harbor seal's spine, never inspected...Introduced last summer, Harbor Seal Splash gives visitors...habitats of the five resident harbor seals. The $125 fee ($110 for...Piper, a ...

HARBOR SEAL PUPPING SEASON AT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 6, 2007 ;     483 words ......to protect the harbor seals during this most...sport users around harbor seal colonies in the...demonstrated that harbor seal populations rapidly...year, about 4,000 harbor seals were counted, over...To ensure that harbor seals are not ...

HARBOR SEAL DIES AFTER EYE SURGERY< A POST-MORTEM EXAM AT THE N.C. ZOO...

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  June 4, 2004 ;   Brumley, Mark;   279 words ......lt; Staff Writer ASHEBORO -- A harbor seal at the N.C. Zoo died Wednesday...The 14-year-old male, one of two harbor seals at the zoo, had been at the state...sea lions and the remaining male harbor seal. From May through August, the...

China protecting harbor seals online

Xinhua News Agency;  January 7, 2004 ;     229 words ...China protecting harbor seals online JINAN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua...to spread knowledge on harbor seals and call on general public...province and the local harbor seal protection office to inform...environment protection. Harbor seals migrate in November from...government has ...

Differential Hematology Profiles of Free-Ranging, Rehabilitated, and...

Aquatic Mammals;  April 1, 2008 ;   Hasselmeier, Ilka; Fonfara, Sonja; Driver, Jörg; Siebert, Ursula;   787 words ......hematology profiles of three harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) groups...of the population of harbor seals in the German North...captive, free-ranging, harbor seal, hematology, rehabilitation...reference values for harbor seals, and previous studies...

Elephant seal bullying smaller animals

Daily Breeze;  April 1, 2002 ;   Colleen Valles;   342 words ......regular territoryand is bullying a colony of harbor seals gathered on the beach to have their pups...80 miles north of San Francisco, where the harbor seals typically go to rest for the labor ahead...have moved north to the beaches where the harbor seals rest. And this one is ...

Andre the real

The Boston Globe;  August 19, 1994 ;     322 words ......about Andre, New England's famous harbor seal, as "based on a true story." That...California that's as different from a harbor seal "as a dog is from a cat," according...casting call. Sea lions are bigger than harbor seals and more dramatic by some lights...could be trained, so could ...