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 ocean waters. The whiskers can tell if something is swimming nearby. So harbor...

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

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  January 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ......up-close and personal with the seven harbor seals and three fur seals at the New England...Quincy, had lots of questions about the harbor seals, plump seals with soulful eyes who flipped...visitors can help trainers entertain the harbor seals, called Get Up Close with Harbor ...

46 Harbor Seals Return to Ocean Home

Xinhua News Agency;  April 3, 2000 ;     187 words ......swimming around the ship twice, 26 baby harbor seals have returned to their ocean home, following...returned to the water last month. The 46 harbor seals were rescued by Chinese fishermen in...special ceremony for the returning seals. Harbor seals are under intensified national ...

On thin ice: harbor seals in Alaska's Glacier Bay have seen a dramatic...

National Parks;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......took ten years to prove suspicions that harbor seals in the region had been declining precipitously...implanted radio transmitters into about 150 harbor seals, in the blubber just below the fur...over 30 percent during the period that harbor seals had declined by 70 percent. But ...

JITTERY SEALS KEEP WATCHERS AT BAY ON CAPE

The Boston Globe;  April 3, 1987 ;     645 words ......North Monomoy Island, more than 100 harbor seals, their corpulence spread across the...seal-watching expedition. "For the most part, harbor seals are timid, but sometimes they'll let...a favorite wintering spot for these harbor seals, the majority of which are less than...

Seals make return to Boston Harbor

The Boston Globe;  January 5, 1996 ;     555 words ......definite numbers, waterfront observers say harbor seals, porpoises and other fish-eating mammals...he feared that was a fluke. The Boston Harbor seals are part of a larger comeback by harbor seals along the New England coast. Once regarded...

Dalian Becomes State Natural Reserve for Endangered Harbor Seals

Xinhua English Newswire;  February 26, 1998 ;     220 words ......the country's only one natural reserve for harbor seals at the state level. Harbor seals, also known as common seals or spotted seals...Okhotsk, Sea of Japan and China's seas. The harbor seals that migrate from the Sea of Japan into China...

More Seals Spotted in East China's Liaodong Bay

Xinhua News Agency;  April 5, 2000 ;     197 words ......department, where some were confirmed as harbor seals, an animal under state-level protection...southernmost reproduction site for harbor seals in the world, zoologists say. At the beginning of the 1980s, harbor seals were abundant at Liaodong Bay...

SEAL CENSUS SHOWS POPULATION GROWTH

Portland Press Herald (Maine);  May 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 The most complete count of harbor seals along New England's coast yields a total...found that virtually all of the adult harbor seals they outfitted with radio tags on Cape...complete count of the population, because harbor seals spend a lot of time in the water. ...

Recent seal sightings along New York coast

Sea Technology;  June 1, 2001 ;     374 words ...Recent sightings of harbor seals along the Long Island coast, in...provoked considerable interest. Harbor seals were common to the harbors and...lined with the plump bodies of harbor seals basking in the sun. Often, well...

Harbor seal pupping season begins

Oakland Tribune;  February 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ...MOSS BEACH THE GENTLE, timid harbor seals left park rangers at the Fitzgerald...Bay Area's year- round population of harbor seals will grow by close to 100 pups this...visitors at a distance whenever the harbor seals are out on the three-mile beach -- they...

Food Consumption and Body Mass of Captive Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina)

Aquatic Mammals;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of nine male and six female captive harbor seals is described. This longitudinal study...the annual food consumption of male harbor seals, but generally it increased from around...consumption of the nonreproductive female harbor seals also varied much among individuals...

Resident Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) in Iliamna Lake, Alaska: Summer...

Aquatic Mammals;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......summer diet and consumption patterns of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) resident in Iliamna...patterns of sockeye salmon body parts. Harbor seals consumed the bodies of nearly all (96...eaten in only 31.3% of females. The harbor seals in Iliamna Lake thus took advantage...

HARBOR SEAL PUPPING SEASON AT POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 6, 2007 ;     483 words ......largest mainland, breeding colony of harbor seals in California. Resting and pupping harbor seals come onshore in various parts of the...Estero is implemented to protect the harbor seals during this most sensitive time of year...

HAVING AN ICE TIME

The Boston Globe;  January 26, 2003 ;     12 words ...Harbor seals in Salisbury bask in freezing temperatures and a weak winter sun.