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UP FOR AIR BACK FLIPPER FRONT FLIPPER CLOSED NOSTRIL WHISKERS FISH A Mediterranean monk seal eats fish, octopuses, squid, eels, and lobsters. ANIMALS Mediterranean monk seals spend most of their life in the sea. The seal swishes its back flippers from side to side to swim. [Extracted from the article]

Two tiny polar bear cubs poke their heads out of a hole and scan the snowy Arctic landscape. "Polar bear cubs learn by imitating", says Alysa McCall, a staff scientist at Polar Bears International. Hudson the polar bear, a resident of the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, Illinois, is believed to be the first living adult polar bear to receive a CT scan - sort of like a detailed x-ray. Since global warming is shortening the lives of some polar bears in the wild, the ability to quickly identify health issues in zoo polar bears like Hudson is crucial. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the survival, nutrition, and weight of harp seal pups.

The article offers information on polar bears and their living conditions in snow climate. Topics discussed include thick fur coats of polar bears helps to keep them warm; fur on the bottom of their big feet helps them walk on snow and ice; and polar bears catch seals that swim up to breathe air and polar bears are good swimmers.

The article offers information on how a Great white shark search and catch its prey for its food. Topics discussed include use of senses by shark to pick up a direction and swim in order to find the prey; importance of smell sense in catching the prey; movement of shark's head from side to side while swimming; catching of a Seal, its prey, by smelling its blood; and catching of prey by trapping the Seal between its jaws and teeth.

Several images are presented of subjects including a harbor seal in a kelp forest off the southern California coast, women floating paper-flower candles on the Huong River in Vietnam, and bioluminescent mushrooms in a rain forest in Brazil.

The article presents information on polar bear including their huge paws to walk on snow, hunting for seals to eat and their home in snow near oceans.

The article discusses the journey taken by a mother polar bear and her cubs in the Arctic during the spring to search for food. It describes how the mother keeps the cubs safe while bringing them to the sea ice to hunt seals. Ringed seals are named as the main meal of polar bears in the Arctic. Scientists are monitoring how polar bears will adapt to warmer weather in the Arctic as a result of climate change.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of swimming into the water and encountering a leopard seal, which is known for being viscious.

Features great white sharks hunting Cape fur seals at the False Bay in South Africa. Food hunting strategies of the sharks.

The article focuses on Harp seals. Harp seals appear to be ghostly torpedoes on the edge of visibility. Their hind flippers splay and fold like fans, propelling them with graceful, powerful strokes. Harp seals have migrated 2,000 miles south from the Arctic to reach their traditional spring quarters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coasts of Labrador and Newfoundland. All the big events of their lives - mating, giving birth, molting - happen here, where blizzards rake the frozen sea and currents crumple the floes into an icy Stonehenge. INSETS: CRACKING UP;FAT CHANGE;TEST DRIVE;THE COLD FACTS OF THE HUNT

Describes the training of seals for underwater rescue work at the North Wind Undersea Institute in New York City, N.Y.

Focuses on fur seals of Pribilof Islands in Alaska. International efforts made to save seals; Habitat of seals; Danger of seals from whales and sharks.

Discusses the seal hunting technique practiced by hunters in Jan Mayen Islands, Norway, in the 1940s. Climatic conditions at the island during seal hunting season; Steps taken by hunters for seal hunting; Breeding places of various species of harp seals; Historical background of commercial sealing in Norway; Reasons for hunting young ones of harp seals.

Focuses on the treaty signed by the U.S., Great Britain, Russia and Japan in Washington State on July 7, 1911 to protect the fur seals of North Pacific Ocean. Features of the treaty; Reason for the signing of the treaty; Significance of seals for people of the region.

Focuses on hunting of seals in Newfoundland. Preparations made by Newfoundlanders for seal hunting; Requirements for seal hunters; Usage of seals by the hunters.

Discusses the features of Guadalupe island in Mexico, which is one among the group of islands lying off the west coast of lower California. Aesthetic value and commercial importance of the island; Importance of the breeding of fur seals on the island; Features of the elephant seal, an endangered species found in the region.

Focuses on a pet seal reared by the author and his family. Description of author's house; Characteristics of the seal; Behavior of the seal with author's family after a sojourn.

Focuses on seals that are found in Antarctic region. Food habits of seals; Features of the animal; Adaptive capabilities of seals.

The article reports that fishermen rescued seal which was trapped in plastic fishing nets. It presents views of environmental engineer Jenna Jambeck on the impact of plastics on ocean animals, and informs that scientists have discovered microplastics frozen in Arctic sea ice. Also discovered is an initiative called Net-Works that helped fishermen to collect abandoned fishing nets from the ocean that endanger marine life.

The article presents a flowchart which shows vacation destination, running of fast as a cheetah or hide as well as an octopus and helping to Mars mission of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It mentions several facts related to animals which include bottlenose dolphin talk to each other a lot, harbor seals spend a lot of time switching between napping in groups and hunting and whale shark is world's largest fish.

The article reports on news in sociology, geography and science. Photographer Paul Nicklen was scared before his first swim with leopard seals. Six in ten young adults cannot find Iraq on a map. The books "The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography," and "Deep Ancestry," by Spencer Wells, are reviewed.

The article offers information on several animals. Topics discussed include winning top prize at the World Dog Surfing Championships by Abbie Girl, an Australian kelpie; fending off an attacking dog from Jordan Jones by pet pig Dasiey in Las Vegas, Nevada; and a seal pup traveled two miles from river in Carnforth, England and views of wildlife rescuer Nick Green on the mystery of journey over land.

The article presents information on various animals including an Atlantic gray seal, a labrador retriever dog named Morgan the Labrador, and an alligator named Mr. Stubbs. It mentions about their characteristics, and how they behave differently than other animals. It also mentions about their unique way of thinking, for example, an Atlantic gray seal was found resting on a boat in the sea.

The article features a seal pup which finds help from volunteers at the U.S. Marine Mammal Standing Center after a shark attack.

The article presents information related to animals. One reports on a wild fur seal that sneaked into a house in New Zealand. One is bout an orphaned black bear cub which was found alone in the woods. Another one is about a black-and-white ruffed lemur named Yoda who scored himself an umbrella out of curiosity.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experiences hunting for common ringed seals with Inuit hunters on Baffin Island and eating the animal's liver raw, which is considered a delicacy in the Arctic.

The article presents the author's vies on a stranded baby seal he found at the Frampton Marsh Nature Reserve in Lincolnshire, England.

The article presents 8 natural wonders to discover in Antarctica. They include the Ross Ice Shelf, icy stripes, and humpback whales that breach above the sea surface. Also mentioned are the fur seals that resemble large dogs, the Adélie penguins that sometimes slide across the icy ground, and the various species of whales that can be seen in the continent.

Presents an educational activity for children about a penguin and a seal.

The article presents the experience of the photographer Brian Skerry, who photographed harp seals. Getting under the pack ice in Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence is easy, says Skerry. But wind and currents often conspire to move the huge sheets of ice around, so that the place one enter may not be the place one exits. Once, as ice chunks the size of Volkswagens jostled on the surface, he looked up to see the crack he'd come through closing. Luckily a new opening appeared in time for his escape. While water temperatures hovered at freezing on all Brian's dives, he says that was the only time he got the chills.

Describes a study conducted by researchers at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre in British Columbia regarding the ability of seals to differentiate between the calls of orcas that eat fish and those that eat seals.

The article looks at how harbor seals use their whiskers, or vibrissae, to absorb sensory data, with a focus on research done by sensory biologist Wolf Hanke and colleagues at the University of Rostock on a harbor seal named Henry.

The article focuses on the rescue of Ghost, a seal pup who got separated from his mother. He was found two miles from the nearest river and eight miles from his ocean habitat. According to wildlife rescuer Nick Green, one possibility why he was found so far from his habitat is that Ghost swam too far upriver and got lost. The seal pup was released back into the Irish Sea less than two weeks later.

Presents a letter to the editor regarding an article about harp seals and the reaction to protecting them from hunters.

Presents a letter to the editor regarding an article about harp seals and the reaction to protecting them from hunters.

Presents a letter to the editor regarding an article about harp seals and the reaction to protecting them from hunters.

Presents a letter to the editor regarding an article about harp seals and the reaction to protecting them from hunters.

This article presents information on a poster offered by the April 2004 issue of the journal "National Geographic." Tears cling to the eyes of newborn harp seals. Since antisealing activists used the pups as a symbol during their campaign against seal hunting, Canada has banned commercial harvesting of whitecoat harp seal pups. Hunted or not, the harp seal makes a good poster pup, so the journal has featured the photograph from the March issue as its latest selection. The poster is available for $29.95 plus $6.95 for shipping.

The article reports that, tears cling to the eyes of newborn harp seals. They lack the ducts that remove excess fluid, so they're always crying. Since antisealing activists used the pups as a symbol during their campaign against seal hunting, Canadian law has banned the commercial hunting of the whitecoat harp seal pups and their numbers have risen.

Presents the results of a study of the fossilized skeletons of whales that lived about 50 million years ago in Pakistan, as of March 2002. Description of the skeletons; Estimated amount of time the whales took from being landlubbers to seafarers.

Reports on the number of harbor seals visiting Childrens Pool Beach in La Jolla, California. The problem of seal waste and fecal coliform bacteria that closed the beach to swimmers; Comment of Terry Williams of the regional park and recreation department on the cove.

Reports on walrus as opportunistic feeders. The pinnipeds' usual meal of clams, shrimps, and other invertebrates; Comment of Mats Forsberg, who witnessed a walrus attack and feed on a seal.

Details how fisherman Charles Marsham resolved his problem with gray seals that ate the fishes in his net pens by building a 16-foot fiberglass killer whale to scare off the seals. Plan of Seattle, Washington officials to adopt the method to scare of sea lions that raid steel-head salmons.

Reports on the Namibian government's targeting of male seals and pups for culling.