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ringed seal

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noun

  1. an Arctic seal, Phoca hispida, having irregular, pale, ring-shaped markings around its body.


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But where and how the Kangia ringed seal was isolated from the other Arctic ringed seals and why it acquired its new special biological characteristics is still a mystery.

From Science Daily • Nov. 1, 2023

The blubber from one adult ringed seal can help a polar bear survive for more than 10 days.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 22, 2021

But the ringed seal, the smallest Arctic seal species, cannot adapt to dry land so easily.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2017

Their preferred meal, the ringed seal, is not available onshore and they often are reduced to going after the much more dangerous walrus.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2013

Johansen took a walk along the lanes, and also managed to miss a ringed seal, or ‘snad,’ as we call it in Norwegian, in a pool here east of us.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof

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