Ringed Seal
Ringed seals are the smallest and most common Arctic seal. Ringed seals are circumpolar and are found in all seasonally ice-covered seas of the Northern ...
Ringed seal ... The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely ...
Ringed Seal | National Geographic
Arctic Adaptations. Most of the ringed seals' time is spent near shore ice, but their ability to maintain cone-shaped breathing holes—which the animals excavate ...
Ringed Seal | National Wildlife Federation
Arctic sea ice has contracted dramatically over the last decade, and climate models predict that continuing sea ice decline may soon lead to conditions ...
Ringed Seal - Alaska Sealife Center
The ringed seal is found in the Northern Hemisphere with a circumpolar distribution ranging from 35°N to the North Pole. There is only one recognized stock of ...
Ringed Seal Species Profile, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Ringed seals are the most common prey of polar bears; in fact, a polar bear may kill a ringed seal every 2 to 6 days. Ringed seals are also preyed upon by ...
Distribution. Ringed seals occur throughout the Arctic, north to the pole if it is without multi-year ice. They are the only northern seal that regularly ...
Wildlife Fact Sheets: Ringed Seal - Ocean Conservancy
What makes ringed seals really stand out, however, is their ability to build breathing holes. Ringed seals can use the claws on their front flippers to excavate ...
In addition to taking advantage of natural cracks or gaps in the ice cover, ringed seals are able to cut and maintain breathing holes, furthering their ability ...
Pusa hispida (ringed seal) - Animal Diversity Web
Predation · Ringed seals are primarily predated upon by polar bears, arctic foxes, and humans. Polar bear predation decreases with increasing snow depth and the ...
Species Spotlight! Ringed Seal: Adorable and At-Risk
During rut in April and May, males exhibit territorial behavior and emit a strong scent from glands of their faces; due to their scent, hunters ...
Ringed seal natural history - Center for Biological Diversity
As the sea ice retreats in late spring and summer, ringed seals in many regions move northward. During summer and fall when the sea-ice extent is at a minimum ...
Ringed Seal - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
They are the most ice adapted of all seals and are distributed throughout the Arctic, wherever there is sea ice. In Alaskan waters, ringed seals occur as far ...
Facts, pictures & more about Ringed Seal
Ringed Seals are generally solo by nature. They hunt alone and when they haul up onto ice to rest they will separate themselves. The only time they come ...
Ringed Seals, Pusa hispida - MarineBio Conservation Society
Conservation Status & Comments ... Ringed seals, Pusa hispida, have long provided a source of food for man, dogs, foxes, and polar bears in the Arctic region. The ...
Ringed Seal - Center for Biological Diversity
Its unique behaviors allow it to use sea-ice habitats that other seals cannot. Only ringed seals can make breathing holes in the landfast ice—the sea ice that ...
Pusa hispida - Ringed seal - OBIS-SEAMAP - Duke University
Physical Description / Field Identification. Ringed seals resemble harbor and spotted seals, but are decidedly plumper (axillary girth may reach 80% of length).
Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida) - Seal Conservation Society
Several tens of ringed seals, mostly young seals, die each year from entanglement in fishing nets and gear, while seal predation also causes some conflict ...
Ringed seal - Norsk Polarinstitutt
Ringed seals occur throughout the Arctic, north to the pole. They are the only northern seal that can maintain breathing holes in thick sea ice and this special ...
Ringed seal pupping lair, with the pup in the lair and ... - GRID-Arendal
Ringed seals are the 'classic' Arctic seal in many regards, being found as far north as the Pole because of their ability to keep breathing holes open in ...