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Mammals: Marine Mammals: Other Marine Mammals

  • Colour photograph of an elephant seal or sea elephant, a very large, oceangoing earless seal.
  • Color photograph of a Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), a baleen whale, with a distinctive body shape, long pectoral fins and tubercles on its head. Known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviours.
  • Color photograph of a Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) near Kodiak, a baleen whale, with a distinctive body shape, long pectoral fins and tubercles on its head. Known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviours.
  • Black and white photograph of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) bubble net feeding in Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
Latin name means {quote}big wing of New England{quote} refering to their giant pectoral fins and their appearance off the coast of New England where European whalers first encountered them.


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Harbor Seal or common seal.
  • Color photograph of Sea Lions (Zalophus califorianus) who haul out in large colonies on rocks and sandy shores. They move into the water to feed and cool off as needed.
  • Color photograph of a South American Sea Lion (Otaria flavescens) who are related to walruses and seals and do not have the dense underfur characteristic of fur seals. They have ear flaps, long foreflippers,and the ability to walk on all fours. They haul out of the water in large colonies on rocks and sandy shores. They move into the water to feed and cool off as needed.
  • Color photograph of a Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) a relatively large seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica.
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