fur seal
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4.1
- noun
- /fɜr siːl/
:
foca de piel
- Other areas are home to harbor, grey, and northern fur seals, and because these animals spend much of their time underwater, their habitats feature extensive underwater viewing facilities.
- northern fur seals
Examples
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The recently renamed Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation is one of only three aquaria in the United States that include facilities for the care of the threatened northern fur seal.
Academic text (1993) -
The new installation, which simulates the rocky Pacific coastline, also features homes for harbor, grey, and northern fur seals, black-footed penguins, and walruses.
Academic text (1993) -
In addition to birds, we were also able to photograph fur seals, elephant seals, sea lions, and eight different species of whales.
Academic text (1994) -
This territory is managed by the male fur seal called the "Beachmaster"; and after the birth, the female will nurse the pup.
Academic text (2004) -
Its beaches abounded with fur seals, whose skins were then an important object of commerce.
Academic text (1990) -
They will now be pursuing their agile prey, the Cape fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus.
Blog text (28) -
The main component of the Northern Fur Seal diet is fish such as herring, anchovy, pollack, and capelin, as well as squid.
Academic text (2004) -
The seals' modern recovery from tiny remnant populations on barren outlying islands is remarkable; today, there are again well over 1 million fur seals in South Georgia and on nearby islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, though organized conservation had very little to do with their recovery.
Academic text (1990) -
The locations of the breeding (dot) and non-breeding colonies (circle) of the South African (Cape) fur seal are shown with the percentage of all pups born in South Africa for Kleinsee and the islands to the west and east of Cape Agulhas.
Academic text (1994) -
During the winter months, a large number of fur seals can be seen lounging on the beach under the warm sun.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a large eared seal with thick fur' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'fur' (dense hair) with 'seal' (the marine mammal); the noun+noun compound denotes a seal characterized by fur. This is a straightforward compositional pattern common across languages and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Fur seal gets its name from the animal's thick, warm fur that people long ago hunted for coats. That's why Fur seal means a kind of seal known for its heavy, valuable fur.