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Seals of the Pack Ice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 September 2009

Harry R. Lillie
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Around the seas of the far northern Atlantic coming under the influence of Arctic conditions lives, frequently on the wander, one of the most delightful of creatures, the harp seal or saddleback, Phoca groenlandica. Large communities migrate in the Newfoundland, Labrador, Baffin Land, Greenland sector; others through the area of Jan Mayen Island towards Spitzbergen. Gregarious for much of the time, they share their world of ice with the occasional bearded seal and ringed seal, walrus, and polar bear. The White Sea in northern European Russia is a great harp seal nursery, for an eastern community in the area of the Barents Sea.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , August 1955, pp. 75 - 88
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1955

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