Pictured below are three species of eared seals, the California, Galapagos and Northern (Steller) sea lions, and three species of earless seals, the harbor, northern elephant, and Hawai’ian monk seals. Eared seals have external ear flaps. They move on land with front flippers extended and hind flippers pulled forward under them. Earless seals have no external ear flaps and hind flippers that extend straight back. On land they crawl awkwardly since they cannot pull their hind flippers under them like sea lions. In water seals and sea lions are fast and graceful.

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Galapagos sea lions se0801	Harbor seal se0802	Northern elephant sea se0803
Northern (Steller) sea lions se0804	California sea lions se0805	Galapagos sea lions se0806
Northern (Steller) sea lion se0807	Galapagos sea lion se0808	Galapagos sea lions se0809
Northern elephant seals se0810	Northern (Steller) sea lions se0811	Galapagos sea lion se0812
Hawai'ian monk seal se0813	Northern (Steller) sea lion se0814	Northern elephant seals se0815
Harbor seals se0816	California sea lions se0817	Northern (Steller) sea lions se0818
California sea lion se0819	Northern (Steller) sea lions se0820	Northern (Steller) sea lions se0821

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