The scientific name of the Southern elephant seal is Mirounga leonina, and its foreign name is Southern elephant-seal. It is the largest seal on earth, the largest pinniped in history, and even the largest carnivore. It is divided into three subspecies: South American subspecies (M.l falclandicus),...
The scientific name of the Northern elephant seal is Mirounga angustirostris, and its foreign name is Northern elephant-seal. It is a large seal-like animal.The Northern elephant seal has large, round, black eyes. The width of the eyes shows that they mainly hunt by vision. Like other seals, norther...
Sawtooth seals are called Lobodon carcinophagus in scientific name and Crabeater seal in foreign language. They are the most numerous seals in the world.Sawtooth seals feed on krill. It is an illusion to call them crab-eating seals because there are very few crabs in Antarctica, which are not enough...
Hooded seal (scientific name: Cystophora cristata) is also known as Hooded seal in foreign languages. There are no subspecies.Among the 19 species of seals, the hooded seal is the least known pinniped. In the past, people always mistakenly thought it was a whale (whales and pinnipeds are two distinc...
The big-eyed seal (scientific name: Ommatophoca rossii) is named because of its relatively large eyes (eye diameter up to 7 cm). It is also called Ross's seal and Ross's seal because it was first described by British Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross in 1841.Big-eyed seals feed on cephalop...
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 toge...
Sometimes they look out of the water, sometimes they dive for food, and sometimes they go up to the islands and reefs to bask in the sun. They are all naive and cute. Yes, they are the cutest seals in the world - harbor seals.Harbor seals spend most of their lives in the water. Except for the infanc...