fur seal

基本解释

Today it is fueling the astonishing resurrection of the Antarctic fur seal, as well as the slow but steady recovery of several whale species.
如今它正支持着一些幸存动物们的复活回归，这其中南极软毛海豹的繁衍声势惊人，而许多鲸类的数量虽然增幅不快却也有稳定回升。
Antarctica is home to many seal species such as this fur seal. Its large eyes are designed to seek out prey in dim waters and are a slightly different shape to a land mammal's.
南极是许多种海豹的栖息之地，就像这只毛皮海豹，它的大眼睛是用来在黑暗的海水中追寻猎物的，与陆地哺乳动物的眼睛形状稍有不同。
"The behaviours that we observe will impact upon the genetic diversity of fur seal populations and may have helped them recover so successfully from near extinction only 100 years ago," said Hoffman.
霍夫曼说：“我们观察到的海狗行为将影响海狗基因的多样性，这也可能是它们在100年前濒临灭绝又重新繁盛的原因。

Box and book together weigh as much as a pair of fur seal pups: 12.5 kilograms.
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In addition to its beginning-of-the-world astonishing beauty, expect two active volcanoes, tens of thousands of Southern Elephant Seals (biggies with really big noses), Antarctic and Sub Antarctic Fur Seals, predatory Leopard Seals, the rarer, slender and pale Crabeater, the plentiful Weddell Seal, and the rare, small, sort-of-sexy Ross Seals famous for their trilling and siren-like sounds.
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a type of seal (= a mammal that eats fish and lives partly in the sea) with ears, found in the Pacific and southern oceans, that has often been hunted for its thick fur

any of various eared seals, esp of the genus Arctocephalus, that have a fine dense underfur and are hunted as a source of sealskin