Baikal seal, Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica) is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Like the Caspian seal,...
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Lake Baikal (/baɪˈkɑːl, -ˈkæl/ by-KAHL, -KAL; Russian: Озеро Байкал, romanized: Ozero Baykal [ˈozʲɪrə bɐjˈkaɫ]; Buryat: Байгал далай, romanized: Baigal...
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seal biology. The only exclusively freshwater seal species is the Baikal seal, locally named nerpa (нерпа). The Baikal seal has inhabited Lake Baikal...
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monk seals, are mostly confined to polar, subpolar, and temperate climates. The Baikal seal is the only species of exclusively freshwater seal. The earliest...
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ringed seals that were separated from the rest when the land rose after the last ice age. This seal, along with the Ladoga seal and the Baikal seal, is one...
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Pinniped (redirect from Seal (mammal))
ago. Seals range in size from the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 45 kg (100 lb) Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern elephant seal. Several...
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in the Gulf of Bothnia. The ringed seal is most closely related to the Caspian seal (P. caspica) and Baikal seal (P. sibirica), all of which share similar...
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Hauling-out (section Ringed seal)
reproduction and rest. Hauling out is necessary in seals for mating (with the exception of the Baikal seal) and giving birth (although a distinction is generally...
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Comephorus (redirect from Baikal oilfish)
Comephorinae. Golomyankas are pelagic fishes and the main food source for the Baikal seal. Comephorus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1800 by the...
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4.22.1.4.1. The skull structure of the Caspian seal suggests it is closely related to the Baikal seal. In addition, the morphological structures in both...
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