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Fur Seals
This Fur Seals - Callorhinus ursinus are very playful and may approach divers to play with the bubbles and fins. They may also 'bites' divers fins.
To get their attention and to get them come close to us, we would wave our hands to create bubbles.
It was a lot of fun diving with them but could not spend lot of time underwater with them because of the cold water temperature of 12-13C!
The northern fur seal is an eared seal found along the north Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk. It is the largest member of the fur seal subfamily and the only living species in the genus ''Callorhinus''. A single fossil species, ''Callorhinus gilmorei'', is known from the Pliocene of Japan and western North America.
Similar species: Carnivorans
By Albert Kang
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Uploaded Jun 3, 2017. Captured in 14 Seaforth Rd, Simon's Town, Cape Town, 7995, South Africa.
