What Is the Difference Between Seals and Sea Lions

What Is The Difference Between Seals And Sea Lions?

Sea lions (left) are brown, bark loudly, “walk” on land using their large flippers and have visible ear flaps. Seals have small flippers, wriggle on their bellies on land, and lack visible ear flaps. … Secondly, sea lions have small flaps for outer ears. The “earless” or “true” seals lack external ears altogether.

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All true seals are members of the family Phocidae (/ˈfoʊsɪdiː/). They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from the fur seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae. … The Baikal seal is the only species of exclusively freshwater seal.

Can seals mate with sea lions?

Unlike whales, seals and sea lions have not developed the ability to mate and give birth in the sea. Sea lions and fur seals bear their young on land.
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