Scientific name:
Leptonychotes weddelli

Natural spread:
Antarctica

near relative with the monk-seals, remained the South-seals, to which also the Weddellrobbe belongs besides the sea-leopard and the crab-glutton, a similar fate spares. they don't possess any natural enemies besides the sword-whale, and also seal-clubs have not yet ventured forward into its spread-area until now, that lies in the Antarctica from all seals the south.

Way of life Weddellrobben live usually individually outside the reproductive-time and hunt its loot, usually ground-living in invertebrates, natural in very big depths. Here, they get the bearings like the bats with ultrasound.

Since these dog-seals live under the ice, they put on blowholes like the ringlet-seals. On the ice, the boys come to the world in a gray wool-dress and don't put as well as any fear on the day, yes it leaves itself touch lighthearted from people. The light youth-dress shifts into a hoary, smooth fur with the alto-animals with sallow-whitens stains. The adult Weddellrobben gain a length up to 3 m and a weight of 350-450 kg.

Continuance its continuance is estimated on over 750 000 copies. They belong to this with it at the least endangered seal.