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Fur seal   /fər sil/   Listen
Fur seal

noun
1.
An eared seal of the northern Pacific.
2.
Eared seal of the southern hemisphere; the thick soft underfur is the source of sealskin.



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"Fur seal" Quotes from Famous Books



... cockatoo. Its numbers on the South Farallon are not great. It makes a nest in a hole in the rocks, and bites if it is disturbed. The island was first used as a sealing station; but this was not remunerative, there being but very few fur seal, and no sea-otters. This animal, which abounds in Alaska, and is found occasionally on the southern coast of California, frequents the masses of kelp which line the shore; but there is no ...
— Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands • Charles Nordhoff
... Indians for permanent residence, being but little trapped and hunted, they have increased rapidly. We found large numbers of old bear and martin traps along the streams and on the coast in the neighborhood of their old villages. Fur seal are killed in considerable numbers, and a few sea otter, from fifteen ...
— Official report of the exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands - for the government of British Columbia • Newton H. Chittenden


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