the seal most known with us is the seal surely. it becomes only approximately 1,20-1,95 m long and possesses a head roundish in contrast to the cone-seal. its smooth fur is dun light-gray until silvery and always shows contrasting stains or ring-drawings to the reason-color. it lives in the coast-waters of the North-Atlantic and North-Pacific with its 5 subtypes and adapts itself to the life in the freshwater with a subtype (Phoca vitulina mellonae). This subtype lives in the Lower-Seal lake as well as its adjoining waters in East-Canada.
Habitat More still as the other dog-seals the seal is tied at shallow coast-water and likes to be in the mudflat to the time of the Jungenaufzucht and the hair-change particularly in the summer. Occasionally, it also goes in far in the rivers. So it is reported from Norway that seals swim inland up to 300 km there far. Normally, they live with us in small troops in the free North sea.
Reproduction In June / July, the boys were born. they wipe the fleecy infant-dress already before the birth. This therefore is important because the boys come on sandbanks of the mudflat to the world and must go into the water already early so. Merely the subtype occurring in the northwest-like Pacific keeps Phoca vitulina largha, that its boys bring to the world on the Treibeis, this somewhat longer whitens until sallow-white wool-fur.
Nutrition Seals live from all sorts of coast-fishings. This fact makes it not exactly popular with the occupation-fishers, who find it a competitors, although they don't damage the fish-continuance considerably. However, an about-face also happens slowly with the fishery-population here.
Seal-hunt and "Heuler" The once very big seal-continuances shrank today, to the one, because more copies were released seßhaft, to the other, here particularly before the German coasts to the shooting down as continuous at times was because the seal-hunt developed into the "bath-sport" - and not least because of the constantly increasing impurity of the seas.
The young alone-calm from the mother scared away through tourists temporarily often are picked up the further one from watt-hikers and not always transfer a found out Aufzuchtstation. Young left by the mother have the habit to give ("Heuler") a howl-scream of itself why they then are picked up by ignorant full of pity. This reputation is to be indicated, however, as contact-tone between mother and child. From continuances, that reach little with people in touch, one knows that these Heuler are really motherless only in the rarest cases but that the mothers usually come back to them after short time if they were not shot as it was the rule with us until 1973/74 unfortunately. A so abandoned seal-child is announced the death when it is not pulled artificially open.
In contrast to the "real ones hay-educational" whose mother sickens or is dead or is they themselves unable to cope with life or sick is these only at short notice abandoned "artificial Heuler" well-fed and in good general-condition. These have best survival-chances, that however, they would have had to even higher extent, also in a good Heuleraufzuchtstation when one had left it on the sandbank - in the mother's care -.
Endangering Through a virus-epidemic, the continuance of the seals declined strongly in the last years. In the red list, they are therefore led as endangered type.
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