what animals are seals related to?
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The Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses. The word pinniped means fin or flipper-footed and refers to the marine mammals that have front and rear flippers. This group includes seals, sea lions, and walruses. These animals live in the ocean but are able to come on land for long periods of time.
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Dogs may be thought of as either their own group, or a slightly removed counterpart to the cat. However, dogs (Caniformes) find much closer relatives in the water, not among cats (Feliformes). Sea lions and seals are not related to other marine mammals, but are actually Caniformes, just like bears and the domestic dog.
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['Adélie Penguins. ... ', 'Chinstrap Penguins. ... ', 'Leopard Seals. ... ', 'Elephant Seals. ... ', 'Snow Petrels. ... ', 'King Penguins. ... ', 'Emperor Penguins. ... ', 'Killer Whales (Orcas)']
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Seals are tough, dangerous mammals. ALONG the south west coast, this is the seal-pupping season. Just before Christmas, neighbours phoned me to say that they had found a grey seal pup on a beach at the Seven Heads in west Cork. ... This seal, however, had no such problems.
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The largest member of the dolphin family, orcas are incredibly powerful, hunting anything from seabirds and squid to large prey like pinniped species (seals and sea lions), and even sharks or other whales. ... Orcas are the largest of all dolphin species, but compared to their Mysticeti cousins, they're quite small.
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Unlike other seals, the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) of the Antarctic feeds largely on penguins, seabirds, and other seals, in addition to fish and krill. The main predators of seals are killer whales, polar bears, leopard seals, large sharks, and human beings.
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Foxes are more closely related to raccoons and bears than they are to cats. Foxes are canids, very closely related to wolves (and dogs, which are still the same species as wolves), but quite distantly related to cats, which are felines.
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Bears are caniforms too, and are more closely related to dogs than cats are. So you could argue that big dogs do exist, and the equivalent of the tiger in the dog world is a grizzly bear!
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Jackals are a type of canine, animals that are related to dogs, coyotes, foxes and wolves.
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r/askscience True seals are in the family "Phocidae" and dogs are in the family "Canidae." That means that looking at the family tree, dogs and seals shared a common ancestor about 40 million years ago. This common ancestor also gave rise to Honey Badgers, Wolverines, Raccoons, Red Pandas, and Bears.
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Beluga whales and bottlenose dolphins are related—they are both cetaceans, meaning they are in the whale family with orcas and narwhals. ... Belugas will imitate people, other animals and other sounds they hear. They are sometimes even called "sea canaries" because of how they sing.
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Seals are mammals, and they live in groups, that is, they are social. Seals are just as intelligent as dogs and wolves, and they do have the capacity to establish bonds with other animals, including humans. They can show affection and loyalty. However, they are still wild animals, and you should never approach them.
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Whilst only 6 of the 35 species of seal live in Antarctica, these 6 species actually make up the vast majority of all seals on earth. The 6 species are Antarctic Fur Seals, Leopard Seals, Ross Seals, Crabeater Seals and Weddell Seals.
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Seals and the rather incorrectly named “sea lions” are carnivores, very similar to land predators. These animals are not in any way closely related to whales, but they do have a surprisingly close link to modern bears, dogs, and weasels. ... Their order name, “Caniformia,” literally means “dog-like.”
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Seals and sea lions are less troublesome than, say, bears or foxes, but there's always a risk of injury or disease when people come into close proximity with wild animals. Those “friendly” creatures of the sea are only friendly because they have been tamed in captivity for show purposes.
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“Dogs and seals are in the same suborder, Caniforma, under the order Carnivora” Imogene Cancellare, a wildlife biologist at the University of Delaware, says. “Dogs and seals are not in the same family, however, and are not closely related. ... For one thing, dogs use their four legs to move around.
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['Zebra + Any other Equine = Zebroid. ... ', 'Lion + Tiger = Liger. ... ', 'Bottlenose Dolphin + False Killer Whale = Wholphin. ... ', 'Grizzly Bear + Polar Bear = Grolar Bear. ... ', 'Domestic Cattle + Americon Bison = Beefalo. ... ', 'Serval + Domestic Cat = Savannah. ... ', 'Male Donkey + Female Horse = Mule. ... ', 'Male Camel + Female Llama = Cama.']