How to Use fur seal in a Sentence

fur seal

noun

• One night, Xpl-108 slipped down to the coast and killed a fur seal.
  — Ryan Truscott, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• The surgery was the first of its kind to treat hydrocephalus in fur seals.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 2 Jan. 2018
• On the platform, the researchers found, the fur seals slept much as land mammals do.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• As early as the 1600s Dutch settlers killed Cape fur seals for their skins and oil.
  — National Geographic, 21 Sep. 2016
• Fly under 2000ft waterfalls, through the fiords and land amongst the fur seals.
  — Tom Ricketts, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Leopard seals used to be rarely seen near fur seal breeding grounds.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Nearly 70 percent of Cape fur seal skins went to Turkey.
  — Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 3 Oct. 2019
• Sea lions, Guadalupe fur seals and baleen whales died at higher rates than usual.
  — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020
• The two fur seals, on the other hand, very likely have a condition called leucism.
  — Jeff Mauritzen, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• Up close, though, almost every inch of Seal Island is covered by the Cape fur seals that gave it its name.
  — David McKenzie and Brent Swails, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
• The particular kind of seal that’s been dying — the Cape fur seal — is thought to number around 2 million.
  — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
• The other rescues this year include one harbor seal, two sea turtles and three Guadalupe fur seals.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• The sandy beaches of the islands are also the territory of fur seals, elephant seals, and dolphins.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 19 Aug. 2019
• Then, in 2018, DLCT scientists spotted the lionesses hunting fur seals—some of the first lions to do so in four decades.
  — Ryan Truscott, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
• Cape fur seals enjoy dining on the energy-rich livers of blue sharks.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Apr. 2023
• The team's captain was Daniel Webster, a longtime foreman agent in the fur seal industry in the Pribilof Islands.
  — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2018
• Take the hundreds of Cape fur seal carcasses that washed up on Namibia’s coastline early last year.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• The network works with Guadalupe fur seal experts to help recover wayward fur seals found along the Oregon coastline.
  — oregonlive, 19 Dec. 2020
• Enjoy exploring trails that lead to gorgeous tide pools and grottos full of fauna, and snorkel nearby with the fur seals and marine birds.
  — Jordan Harvey, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2020
• An unprecedented die-off of over 5,000 Cape fur seal pups on a Namibian beach is being probed by the country’s fisheries ministry.
  — Kaula Nhongo, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• Bottlenose dolphins, California sea lions, and the Guadalupe Island fur seal also call the area home.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• National Geographic Critter Cams like the ones seen above also show how leopard seals prey on fur seal pups and steal food.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Over the longer term, global warming could make El Niño years even more challenging for the species, and others as well, including fur seals and Galápagos penguins.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
• Researchers know that creatures like dolphins manage to sleep in the ocean by turning off only half of their brains at a time, while fur seals can sometimes sleep with their whole brain, and sometimes with only half.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• Sea lions and fur seals in Uruguay have become a tourist attraction—but the animals have become less tolerant of the disturbance.
  — Jason G. Goldman, Scientific American, 29 May 2018
• Thus far this year, SeaWorld San Diego has rescued 54 sea lions, 16 northern elephant seals, six fur seals, three sea turtles, one dolphin and one harbor seal.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Thus far this year, SeaWorld San Diego has rescued 51 sea lions, 14 northern elephant seals, six fur seals, three sea turtles, one dolphin and one harbor seal.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• Numbers of fur seals continue to grow on tiny Bogoslof Island despite hot mud, steam and sulfurous gases spitting from vents on the volcano.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
• Oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat than previously thought, which is causing more fur seals to suffer from hookworm.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019
• The surviving crew fixed the ship, stocked it full of hundreds of the sea otters, foxes and fur seals that were abundant there and returned to Siberia, impressing Russian fur hunters with their valuable cargo.
  — William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024