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fur seal noun [ C ] uk/ˌfɜː ˈsiːl/ us/ˌfɝː ˈsiːl/ 海狗a type of seal (= a mammal that eats fish and lives partly in the sea) with ears, found in the Pacific and southern oceans, that has often been hunted for its thick fur In the Galapagos Islands, fur seals were hunted almost to extinction. 加拉帕戈斯群岛上的海狗被捕杀到几乎灭绝。 更多例句- Great white sharks prey on Algoa Bay's penguins and fur seals.
- Antarctic fur seals crowded onto island beaches to mate each summer.
- Within half a century of Cook's voyage, seal hunters killed more than a million fur seals, at a rate of about 250,000 a year when hunting peaked around 1822.
- The commercial harvest of fur seal pelts drove Alaska's history for more than a century.
- The local fur seal population is in decline.
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