ringed seal
pusa hispida latin

No information is available on the status of ringed seals.

Then they move out on the ice for the ringed seals that are their basic diet.

Ringed seal is the most common meal of the polar bear.

The estimated population size for the Alaska stock of ringed seals is 249,000 animals.

The polar bear is a major predator of ringed seals.

Ringed seal are an important food item in particular for polar bears.

Ringed seals were once the main food staple for the Inuit.

The Saimaa ringed seal's longevity is just over 20 years.

These friendships last only until the ice forms, then it is every bear for himself to hunt ringed seals.

Saimaa ringed seals become mature between the ages of 4 and 6 on average.

Though no longer used to this extent, ringed seals are still an important food source for the people of Nunavut.

Ringed seals eat a wide variety of small prey.

Ringed seals are vulnerable to predators as they must stay close to breathing holes in the ice.

The taxonomy of ringed seal has been much debated and revised in the literature.

The Saimaa ringed seal has been protected since 1955.

Ringed seals are one of the main prey of polar bears.

The ringed seal is the smallest and most common seal in the Arctic.

The federal scientists concluded: "The open water season will increase by 90 days, forcing ringed seal and polar bear populations further north."

In the water (or under the ice) the year-round visitors are mainly the Ringed Seal.

Meanwhile, in the Arctic, ringed seal pups are prey to polar bears.

The population is descended from ringed seals that were separated from the rest when the land rose after the last ice age.

In the summer ringed seals feed along edge of the sea-ice for polar cod.

During the summer, Ringed Seals keep to a narrow territory approximately along the shoreline.

Also, ringed seals in the Baltic Sea are recovering.

Gray seal and ringed seal are met in the gulf, but the latter is very rare.

Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida)

Ladoga seal (Pusa hispida ladogensis)

Saimaa seal (Pusa hispida saimensis)

Ringed seal, Pusa hispida (formerly Phoca hispida)

The ringed seal (Pusa hispida), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal.

The Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis) is a subspecies of ringed seal (Pusa hispida).

Polar cod is a major food of Arctic char, beluga, narwhal, sea birds and seals, which are dominated by the Bearded Seal (Erignatus barbatus) and Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida).

The ice cover is the main habitat for two large mammals, the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) and the Baltic ringed seal (Pusa hispida botnica), both of which feed underneath the ice and breed on its surface.

The Baikal seal, the Saimaa ringed seal (Pusa hispida saimensis), and the Ladoga seal (Pusa hispida ladogensis) are the only exclusively freshwater seals.