Pinnipeds
Pinnipeds such as seals have a layer of this to keep them warm in cold waters.
What is blubber?
The most distinguishing difference between true and eared seals is whether or not they have these.
What are ear flaps?
The walrus family name Odobenidae means "one that walks with" these.
What are teeth?
Sea cows get their name because like cows, they eat a lot of this.
What are plants? (vegetation)
This group of pinnipeds has tusks.
What are walruses?
This type of seal has short, fur-covered front flippers with claws at the end.
What are true seals?
This is the name given to a group of walruses traveling together.
What are herds?
In 1493, Christopher Columbus mistook manatees for theses.
What are mermaids?
This phrase is used to describe when a pinniped moves from water to land.
What is hauling out?
Being able to pull their rear flippers underneath them allows ear seals to do this.
What is walk on land?
This is the term for a baby walrus.
What is a calf?
This is the main menace to manatees swimming in shallow water.
What are boats?
This is the territory that a group of pinnipeds form on land.
What is a rookery?
Seals belong to this family.
What is Phocidae?
Walruses mostly live in this ocean, the world's northern-most ocean.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Unlike dugongs, manatees are often found in this kind of water.
What is freshwater?
This is the manner in which a sea lion eats a fish.
What is headfirst?
This family includes sea lions and fur seals.
What is Otariidae?
Defined by how they move in the water, walruses prefer to eat this type of aquatic creature?
What is benthic?
Sea cows belong to this order.
What is Sirenia?