Ringed Seal Skull Replica
$182.00
Female Ringed Seals usually begin mating in late April. Males will roam the ice for a mate. When found, the male and female may spend several days together before mating. Then the male looks for another mate.
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Description
Ringed Seal Skull Replica measures 6 inches. Ringed Seal Skull Replica is museum quality polyurethane cast, made in the USA. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). Our precise skull can be used as a teaching tool, museum skull exhibit, home décor skull, or office décor skull.
The Ringed Seal or Pusa hispida are also known as the Jar seal, Netsik or Nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The Ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater than 1.5 m in length, with a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, hence its common name.
Phoca hispida is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe.
Ringed seals are one of the primary prey of polar bears and killer whales, and have long been a component of the diet of indigenous people of the Arctic.
The Ringed seal or Phoca hispida is the smallest and most common seal in the Arctic, with a small head, short cat-like snout, and a plump body. Its coat is dark with silver rings on the back and sides with a silver belly, from which this seal gets its vernacular name.
Depending on subspecies and condition, adult size can range from 39.5 to 69 in. and weigh from 71 to 309 lb. The seal averages about 5 ft. long with a weight of about 110 to 150 lbs.
The Ringed seal or Phoca hispida is usually considered the smallest species in the true seal family, although several related species, especially the Baikal seal, may approach similarly diminutive dimensions.
Their small front flippers have claws more than 1 inch thick that are used to maintain breathing holes through 6.5 ft thick ice. Ringed seals occur throughout the Arctic Ocean. They can be found in the Baltic Sea, the Bering Sea and the Hudson Bay. They prefer to rest on ice floe and will move farther north for denser ice.
Ringed Seal Facts:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Clade: Pinnipedia
Family: Phocidae
Genus: Pusa
Species: P. hispida
Binomial Name: Pusa hispida
Scientific name: Phoca hispida
Conservation status is least concerned.
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| Weight | 4 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6 in |
| International Seal Day - March 22nd | Every year on March 22nd, the International Day of the Seal promotes the conservation of seals worldwide. It’s also a day to celebrate this amazing marine mammal. A seal is a type of animal called a pinniped, which is Latin for “fin-footed.” Other pinnipeds include the walrus and sea lion. What makes seals different than other pinnipeds is that they don’t really use their flippers to walk. When on land, they usually slide around on their bellies. In the water, their flippers help them swim really fast. Seals are also much quieter and smaller than their sea lion and walrus cousins. |
