Largha seal
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Largha seal ( Phoca largha ) |
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The spotted seal ( Phoca largha ) is the external appearance of the seal very similar dog Robbe that the North Pacific from Alaska on the Pacific coast of Siberia to Japan and Korea inhabited. The color is gray and the seal is covered with small brown spots. Males are 1.7 meters long, females 1.6 meters.
Largha seals come onto the pack ice and drift ice at breeding time . They give birth there from February to May. The couples meet about ten days before the birth and stay together for a month. Outside of breeding season, Largha seals migrate widely and travel far south.
The inventory is estimated at 230,000 copies. The largha seal is of little economic importance, but is still often killed by fishermen in particular, as it is seen as a food competitor.
literature
- R. Wandrey: Whales and Seals of the World . Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH, 1997, ISBN 3-440-07047-6
Web links
- Phoca largha in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2006. Posted by: Seal Specialist Group, 1996. Retrieved on 12 May, 2006.