Seal Facts

Seals, sea lions and walruses are sea mammals that mainly live in water and are agile swimmers, but which waddle awkwardly when they come on land.
Most seals eat fish, squid and shellfish. Crab eater seals eat mainly shrimps, not crabs.
Seals and sea lions have ears, but only sea lions (and fur seals) have ear flaps.
Only sea lions can move their back flippers under their body when traveling about on land.
When seals come ashore to breed, they live for weeks in vast colonies called rookeries.
Walruses are bigger and bulkier than seals, and they have massive tusks and face whiskers.
When hunters kill seal pups for their fur, or to keep numbers down, it is called culling.
Elephant seals spend up to 8 months far out in the ocean continuously diving, with each dive lasting 20 minutes or so.
There are freshwater seals in Lake Baikal in Russia.

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