ringed seal
Americannoun
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The small resident population is highly unusual compared to the typical Arctic ringed seal, which has an enormous population size and often travels thousands of kilometres around the Arctic in search of food.
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
If ringed seal populations slump, there will be another victim, too: they are the prime food source of the polar bear.
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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