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a torpedo wearing a tuxedo, equally fluent in nap and ambush
means A sleek marine mammal with flippers that lives in the sea and hauls out on land or ice to rest — or, as a separate word, a device or mark that closes something tightly or proves it authentic.
from Two different words wearing the same coat. The animal comes from Old English 'seolh,' a North Sea creature with cousins across the Germanic languages. The other 'seal' — the wax-stamped, lid-shut kind — sailed in from Old French 'seel,' itself from Latin 'sigillum,' meaning a little figure or mark (a diminutive of 'signum,' a sign). So one seal barks on a rock; the other quietly signs your fate in wax — same spelling, no relation.
- deep diver
- Elephant seals plunge over a mile down hunting
- sleep style
- Some seals sleep upright underwater for minutes
- vibrissae
- Whiskers track fish trails left seconds ago
- shark bait
- Great whites adore them as primary prey
- singing seals
- One trained seal mimicked human speech sounds
harp seal — marine mammal hunted in canada's gulf of st. lawrence, ~7,000 pups killed annually
monk seal — critically endangered pinniped with ~88 individuals remaining in hawaii
leopard seal — antarctic apex predator that hunts penguins in the southern ocean