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Photo Gallery: Seals and Sea Lions
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Photo: A New Zealand fur seal basks in the sun
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Fur seals belong to the class known as eared seals and have excellent hearing and sharp eyesight. They live in colonies on rocky beaches, but will spend weeks at a time in the water hunting.
Photograph by Maria Stenzel

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