What is a ringed seal?
Q: What is a ringed seal?
A: A ringed seal is an earless seal that lives in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas.
Q: What is the size of a ringed seal?
A: A ringed seal is rarely greater than 1.5 m in length and is a small seal.
Q: What is the distinctive patterning of a ringed seal?
A: A ringed seal has dark spots surrounded by light grey rings.
Q: Where do ringed seals live?
A: Ringed seals live throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe.
Q: What is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the northern hemisphere?
A: The ringed seal is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the northern hemisphere.
Q: What is the diet of a polar bear?
A: Ringed seals are one of the main prey of polar bears.
Q: Who eats ringed seals?
A: Indigenous people of the Arctic have long been eating ringed seals as part of their diet.
