NOUN
- aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers
How To Use pinniped In A Sentence
- Fossil seals from late Neogene deposits in South America: a new pinniped (Carnivora, Mammalia) assemblage from Chile. Archive 2006-02-01
- -- Among pinnipeds, sealions belonging to Arctocephalus and Zalophus often hybridise, but they are well apart in phylogenies, and have traditionally even been grouped in separate subfamilies. The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas
- A healthy avoidance of pinniped colonies is another way to minimize human fatalities.
- Marine vertebrates including tunas, seabirds, sharks, sea turtles, pinnipeds and cetaceans use a pelagic ecosystem we barely understand.
- Pinnipeds are aquatic mammals with all flour limbs modified into flippers.
- The living pinniped carnivores tend toward homodonty in the postcanine dentition and lack functional tooth replacement altogether.
- Porpoising is a behavioral strategy used by small cetaceans and pinnipeds moving at high speed near the water surface.
- Killer whales also prey on mammals such as other cetaceans and pinnipeds, as well as on birds and large fish.
- Pinnipeds are aquatic mammals with all flour limbs modified into flippers.
- We tested 42 microsatellite loci isolated from five pinniped species in a sample of 52 pups.
