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    The South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens, formerly Otaria byronia), also called the southern sea lion and the Patagonian sea lion, is a sea lion found...
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    Genus Eumetopias Steller's sea lion, E. jubatus Genus Neophoca Australian sea lion, N. cinerea Genus Otaria South American sea lion, O. flavescens Genus Phocarctos...
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    Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus, also known as Steller's sea lion or the northern sea lion) is a large, near-threatened species of sea lion, predominantly...
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    The Galápagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) is a species of sea lion that lives and breeds on the Galápagos Islands and, in smaller numbers, on Isla...
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    The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea), also known as the Australian sea-lion or Australian sealion, is a species of sea lion that is the only endemic...
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    The New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri), once known as Hooker's sea lion, and as pakake (for both male and female) or whakahao (male) and kake (female)...
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    California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) is a coastal eared seal native to western North America. It is one of six species of sea lions. Its natural...
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    Pinniped (redirect from Sea-calf)
    (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless seals, or true seals), with...
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    seal and the South American sea lion tend to herd specific harem-associated females, occasionally injuring them, while the Steller sea lion and the New...
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    Chimento, N. R. & Agnolin, F. L. (2017). "The fossil American lion (Panthera atrox) in South America: Palaeobiogeographical implications". Comptes Rendus...
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    variation in the gene pool that may help to protect the South American sea lion from extinction. In lions, prides are often followed by related males in bachelor...
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  • Seawolf (redirect from Sea wolf)
    known as wolffish or sea wolf A nickname of the killer whale South American sea lion, locally called lobo marino (sea wolf) The Sea-Wolf, a 1904 novel by...
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    relative, the white-nosed coati. The South American coati is widespread in tropical and subtropical South America. It occurs in the lowland forests east...
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    The South American foxes (Lycalopex), commonly called raposa in Portuguese, or zorro in Spanish, are a genus from South America of the subfamily Caninae...
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    considered synonymous with the American marten. The American marten is broadly distributed in northern North America. From north to south its range extends from...
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    North America began to arrive in the Pacific Northwest to trade for sea otter furs. Russian hunting expanded to the south, initiated by American ship captains...
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    in length, while the giant otter of Amazonian South America can measure up to 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) and sea otters can exceed 45 kg (99 lb) in weight. Wolverines...
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    Elephant seal (redirect from Sea Elephant)
    2006. BBC News. Retrieved 23 April 2013. "Southern Elephant Seals of Sea Lion Island – A Long-term Research Project" (PDF). Eleseal.org. Retrieved 2010-05-21...
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    Cougar (redirect from Mountain Lion)
    KOO-gər), also known as the puma, mountain lion, catamount, or panther, is a large cat native to the Americas, second in size only to the stockier jaguar...
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    Morgan (1985). "A new sea otter (Carnivora: Mustelidae) from the late Miocene and early Pliocene (Hemphillian) of North America". Journal of Paleontology...
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    Crimea and 0 to 1500 B.C.E. in the Donev River Basin in the northern Black Sea region. Fossils of the corsac fox have been recovered from the famous Denisova...
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    movies, television and other media. A popular example is Timon from the Lion King franchise, who is an anthropomorphic meerkat. Meerkat Manor (2005–2008)...
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    331–344 Mills & Hofer 1998, p. 97 "The spotted hyena from Aristotle to the Lion King: reputation is everything - In the Company of Animals". Stephen E. Glickman...
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    Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (German: Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for their planned invasion of the United...
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    Fur seal (redirect from Sea Bear)
    South American fur seals, and subantarctic fur seals. Along with the previously mentioned thick underfur, fur seals are distinguished from sea lions by...
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    in the Tigrinya language is ጭክ ኣንበሳ, ch’ok anbessa, which means 'bearded lion'. In the Emirati Dialect of Arabic, its name is الوشق الصحراوي (al Washq...
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    centered on Central America (where their diversity is greatest); they entered the formerly isolated South America as part of the Great American Interchange,...
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  • List of mammals of Chile (category Lists of mammals of South America)
    Clade: Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions and walruses) Family: Otariidae (eared seals, sea lions) Genus: Arctocephalus South American fur seal, Arctocephalus...
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    "mink": the American mink and the European mink. The extinct sea mink was related to the American mink but was much larger. The American mink's fur has...
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    Arctic fox (category Mammals of North America)
    extinction) and other islands in the Barents Sea, northern Russia, islands in the Bering Sea, Alaska, and Canada as far south as Hudson Bay. In the late 19th century...
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