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  • Like the Polar Bear, Pacific Walruses are a pagophilic (ice-loving) species whose livelihood and well-being depend on sea ice as a platform from which they dive to the ocean floor of the continental shelf to retrieve the benthic (bottom dwelling) creatures - like clams and mussels - that sustain them.

    Giles Slade: Alaska's Walruses High and Dry: (1st of 5) 2009

  • Like the Polar Bear, Pacific Walruses are a pagophilic (ice-loving) species whose livelihood and well-being depend on sea ice as a platform from which they dive to the ocean floor of the continental shelf to retrieve the benthic (bottom dwelling) creatures - like clams and mussels - that sustain them.

    Giles Slade: Alaska's Walruses High and Dry: (1st of 5) 2009

  • Baikal seals are thermophobic and pagophilic (that is, they avoid heat and like ice and snow), and their pups have white silky natal fur and are born on the ice that covers the lake between February and April.

    The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006

  • Secondly, the Paratethyan hypothesis requires that the phocines ancestral to Baikal seals and Ringed seals were animals of enclosed basins, relatively low latitudes and warm temperatures, and this is problematic given that Baikal and Ringed seals are thermophobic and pagophilic, with thickly-furred pups kept in snow dens.

    The most inconvenient seal Darren Naish 2006

  • Secondly, the Paratethyan hypothesis requires that the phocines ancestral to Baikal seals and Ringed seals were animals of enclosed basins, relatively low latitudes and warm temperatures, and this is problematic given that Baikal and Ringed seals are thermophobic and pagophilic, with thickly-furred pups kept in snow dens.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Baikal seals are thermophobic and pagophilic (that is, they avoid heat and like ice and snow), and their pups have white silky natal fur and are born on the ice that covers the lake between February and April.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Pacific Walruses are a pagophilic (ice-loving) species whose livelihood and well-being depend on sea ice as a platform from which they dive to the ocean floor of the continental shelf to retrieve food.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

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