- Seals, sea lions and walruses are sea mammals that mainly live in water and are agile swimmers, but which waddle awkwardly when they come on land.
- Most seals eat fish, squid and shellfish. Crab eater seals eat mainly shrimps, not crabs.
- Seals and sea lions have ears, but only sea lions (and fur seals) have ear flaps.
- Only sea lions can move their back flippers under their body when traveling about on land.
- When seals come ashore to breed, they live for weeks in vast colonies called rookeries.
- Walruses are bigger and bulkier than seals, and they have massive tusks and face whiskers.
- When hunters kill seal pups for their fur, or to keep numbers down, it is called culling.
- Elephant seals spend up to 8 months far out in the ocean continuously diving, with each dive lasting 20 minutes or so.
- There are freshwater seals in Lake Baikal in Russia.
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