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hood seal
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large seal of the North Atlantic, Cystophora cristata. Also hooded seal.
Quotations
1784
Our Seal-hunters name it the Hooded Seal, and pretend they cannot kill it till they remove that integument.
1883
The old male harps appear to be indifferent about their young. The male hood seal, on the other hand assists his mate in her maternal guardianship. . . .
1966
Last year I surveyed the hood seals and discovered that only a few hundred were still alive; this magnificent animal had been hunted to the brink of extinction.