crabeater seal
noun
crab·eat·er seal
ˈkrab-ˌē-tər- 
: an Antarctic hair seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) that feeds on krill and lives and breeds on pack ice
called also crabeater
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Going with the Floe by Tamara Stubbs While on a nine-week expedition in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, photographer Tamara Stubbs of the United Kingdom spotted these two crabeater seals taking a nap.
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
As the comparison between wolves, crabeaters and Janjucetus shows, the ancient whales generally had sharper teeth more similar in form — and therefore function — to wolves and other land predators than to modern toothed suction feeders like the crabeater seal.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
Clumsy and laborious on land, crabeater seals are elegant and agile swimmers that spend their entire lives in the pack ice zone surrounding the frozen continent.
—Popular Science, 13 May 2020
The ethereal photograph, taken by French photographer Greg Lecouer underneath an iceberg, shows four crabeater seals drifting in the frigid waters.
—Fox News, 27 Feb. 2020
There is also a species of pinniped known as the crabeater seal, which lives in Antarctica.
—National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
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Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
Platinum blond crabeater seals lounged on divans of drifting ice, basking in the sun.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
As the comparison between wolves, crabeaters and Janjucetus shows, the ancient whales generally had sharper teeth more similar in form — and therefore function — to wolves and other land predators than to modern toothed suction feeders like the crabeater seal.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
Clumsy and laborious on land, crabeater seals are elegant and agile swimmers that spend their entire lives in the pack ice zone surrounding the frozen continent.
—Popular Science, 13 May 2020
The ethereal photograph, taken by French photographer Greg Lecouer underneath an iceberg, shows four crabeater seals drifting in the frigid waters.
—Fox News, 27 Feb. 2020
There is also a species of pinniped known as the crabeater seal, which lives in Antarctica.
—National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
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