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harbor seal

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harbor seal
the common seal, 5 to 6 ft long, up to 300 lb body weight, and a good performer in captive aquatic shows. Called also Phoca vitulina.


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The similarity between estimated cumulative proportion of deaths in 1988 (53% of the population) and 2002 (54%) suggests that the pathogenicity of PDV for the harbor seal population has not changed noticeably.
Researchers at England's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) raised six orphaned harbor seal pups, Phoca vitulina (FO-ka vit-yoo-LIE-nah).
The harbor seal population crashed in the late 1970s.
 
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