Harbour Seal
Phoca vitulina · Mammal
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The harbour seal keeps to shallow coasts, bays, rocky islets and estuaries of the northern Atlantic and Pacific, and some even live in freshwater lakes. It is mostly alone and active by day, gathering in loose groups only to pup and to moult. People hunted it for blubber, meat, fur and skin, and fishermen resent it for emptying and tangling their nets.
- Danger
- Dangerous if cornered
- How it is met
- Alone, by day
- Size
- Medium
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Lake, Rocky Shore, Sandy Shore, Estuary, Kelp Forest
Gives
Harbour Seal Pelt, Harbour Seal Blubber
Sources
- Kristan Cale, Phoca vitulina (harbor seal). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 2012.
- Harbor seal. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
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