Ribbon seal is a small species of seal with no subspecies.
Usually live alone, usually gather in small groups. Most of their lives are spent migrating and foraging between breeding grounds and floating ice oceans. Once the breeding season arrives, seals of all ages, genders and sizes will gather together. Both molting and reproduction occur when the ice breaks in spring. Adult seals land on the ice to reproduce, while the young molt on the ice. The banded seal has a sound-making air sac in its abdomen for underwater communication.
When the banded seal feels a threat after landing, it will spend more time looking around than other pinnipeds, which may be due to the decreased vision after leaving the water. They will use their front flippers to dig ice and push.
Listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Data Deficient (DD), 2008 assessment.
Listed in China's "National Key Protected Wildlife List": National Class II Protected Animals (effective December 10, 1988, all species of Pinnipeds)
Listed in the "National Key Protected Wildlife List of China" Class II.
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