Sea seals belong to the detachment of animals and are representatives of the family of eared seal.

Like all the lastonous mammals, the body has an elongated shape, neck - short, head - small, and limbs have the shape of the last. The tail in these mammals, as well as their ears, it is almost impossible to notice. But even though the ears themselves are too small, but they still have ear shells.

Large eyes are located on the head, they have a dark shade and always filled with moisture. The hair cover in the animal is very short, but quite thick. Fur color, often, brown or black

The size of the animal is not small, but the individuals of the male is always much larger than the females, about 4 or 5 times. The males weigh from 100 to 250 kilograms, and the individuals of the female - from 25 to 40 kilograms.

The entire population of these animals on the planet is divided into the northern seaside cats and southern seaside cats. The territory of their habitat is the space of the Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Alaska peninsula in the north and to Australia in the south. In addition, one species of these animals live on the coast of the southern part of African mainland.

Prefers the sea cat coast, while it can be located on a rocky shore and on the gentle territories.

Sea seats - herd animals, they are going to huge colonies, and everyone will settle in one place. Sometimes in places where such a cluster lives, literally applee there is no place to fall. The shore for these mammals is a resting place, and the hunting occurs in the water. Often, the hunt is tightened - up to three days. But this is not a problem for marine cats, because they can sleep even in the water!

These mammals are migrating animals. Their movements are associated with the removal of offspring, because in the breeding season they require cold water, in which there are many foods you need.

Although maritime seals and live a herd, but everyone is preferred to hunt for themselves, such a temper of them! Scientists believe that these representatives of lastonovich have a rather high intelligence.

Sea seats hunt, mostly, for fish. Sometimes they can eat cuisons for mollusks. Thanks to the special body streaming, these animals are quite fast submarine swimmers.

The marriage period in animals falls on the spring (in the northern hemisphere is May, in South - November). Marine male seals with the onset of the marriage period are trying to immediately designate their territory. They do it with the help of a loud rheva.

Octopus - Favorite Sea Kitics.

The males occupying the "high position" and having the largest dimensions are located in the center of the fokest. The protection of the territory is very serious and not always friendly: the fights between rivals arise. Around yourself the male sea cat collects something like a harem. He has several females at once (up to 20 individuals!) After the marriage period, pregnancy comes.

For a whole year, the future mother puts off the offspring, and after childbirth carefully protects the young, because the "father of the family" behaves absolutely unceremoniously against small cats: he may simply not notice and crush the baby with his huge body.

The weight of the newborn cat is approximately 2 kilograms. When the kids are marching 2 months from the family, they are already beginning to take care of the hunt and go into the water. Until that time, food for them is the maternal milk.

Northern sea cat is a mammal of predatory animal unique in nature, one of the seven species living in the northern hemisphere.

This view of the first glance can resemble the southern seaside cats.

Their skin is covered with dense and warm fur. Considering the fact that the demand for its skin today is still large, more than 9,000 thousand of these wonderful creatures are exterminated on the territorial waters of Russia..

This species of animals for the first time came to the eyes of a person in a thousand seven hundred and forty-first year near the commander islands. Then a little later, their frying was found on the O-ve Profit.

Male body weight is 5 times more female weight, it can vary from 187 to 255 kg, and the weight of the female barely reaches 50 kg. The length of the secret torso is also called adult males, reaches 2 meters, the length of the female body is a maximum of 1.5 meters.

Young individuals of this type of animal color is very different from adults. Young people are lighter, and in adults darker.

On the neck of the male bounces a thick collar. The large volume of subcutaneous fat is necessary in order to keep the constant required by the body - the body temperature in the cold, and sometimes in ice water.

And he also gives him a streamlined form, thereby making this maritime beast - an extremely fast swimmer. Approximately one thousand newborns puppies, a puppy is born - albino, but as studies have shown, they are not adapted to life in the wild due to the complete or partial absence of vision.

This representative of the "lastonous" detachment prefers to dwell in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, as well as it can be found on the island of seal and on several Kuril Islands.

However, this is not all, his area extends from the Sea of \u200b\u200bOkhotsk and to the US banks.

The main part of your life these maritime residents are carried out in the cold aforementioned waters.

The males mainly lead no nomadic, and the females migrating the seasonal lifestyle. The bulk of his personal time adult males spend on protecting their territory from annoying competitors who apply to his huge foggy.

From the permanent habitat, males sail during feeding for a slight distance, then when females may be absent, months - spending all this time in search of food.

Females keep the course in place rich in fish, the path may be unclear there, but these wonderful hunters will stop. They seem to know - that their efforts and stubbornness will be generously rewarded.

This type of sea cats is not only perfectly floating, but quickly move on land Unlike his fellow - ordinary seal.

In this he helps the rear flippers, which he fell under the body and uses them as a feet. They, in turn, lift the body slightly, and the cat appears the opportunity to move from jumps on a slight distance.

The characteristic feature of this type of animals is that during the melting, they carry round limbs of circular movements, and the rear flips are used as a helm.

When females of the cats arrive at the places of a large carcassing of fish, they begin their feast. Food only at night, it helps them save the already lost energy and strength.

Almost all kinds of fish, on which our hero hunt, floats at twilight to the surface, where it becomes easy prey of the indomitable sea predator.

The main diet includes not only fish, but other marine organisms, such as:

• crustaceans;
• cephalopogo mollusks;

They detect their victims, using vibribors that capture the vibration of water, then the nerve ending transmit a signal to the animal's brain. The signal contains information about the coordinates and approximate distance to the victim.

The victim, against the background of a sea cat, who has excellent vision, hearing, smell, maneuverability - is absolutely powerless and easy prey for him.

We try to rest well on weekdays, if possible, sleep a little, if it does not appear in proximity to be the most terrible enemy in common; or kavern.

Gon begins in mid-May, the sekachi arrives the first to the place where they define their frying and actively defend him. The uterus sail at the end of May or at the beginning of June. Each adult male expects the exit of females to the shore in order to force it to be forced into his harem.

During the marriage calamity, the secci is publishing a sharp lever, by the way, you can listen to it by going through this.

The head of the harem is very zealously refers to his partners. After 3 - 4 days from the moment of arrival in the harem, the female brings offspring, the newborn baby appears on the light head forward, its body color is often dark, weight 2 kg The length of the tiny body reaches 50 cm.

Resting after childbirth, the female mates with the owner of the harem and goes to the sea for 5 - 7 days to eat. During this time, in search of feed, it can overcome more than 200 thousand kilometers.

Returning, she is in a hurry to feed her child nutritious, greasy and healthy milk. At three month old, the baby is in the water. The sexual ripening of males comes in 5 years, and in females in 2 years.

In the territorial waters of the United States, the fishing of these animals is prohibited from a thousand nine hundred and eighty-fifth year. However, in the waters of the Russian Federation it continues to exterminate in large numbers for the sake of valuable fur and expensive skins.

Fortunately, the total number of livestock is stable. Takson disappearance by scientists not recorded.

In the wild, the northern kind of sea cattle lives no more than 25 years.

1. During the marriage rituals, a large percentage of young creatures die, due to the lack of a sufficient number of space for the occasion and life of the harem.
2. The depth of immersion during the hunt does not exceed 200 meters.
3. The diet has 63 species of different fish, but the most commonly used are seven or eight species.
4. Fishermen hung up stigma on this kind of animals, they say, they are guilty of the mass extermination of salmon families, later it turned out that this charge was groundless.
5. The fierce and bloodthirsty enemy for the cat is: a big white shark.

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In Russia, three separate herds of sea cats live - Commander, Kurilsky, Sakhalinsky. In the United States, the largest grouping is located on the prostrate islands, which in some years reaches several million individuals. In the southern hemisphere, another species dwells - the southern sea cat, the fur of which is significantly inferior in the quality of the Northern Council.

The habitat of the Northern Sea Kitics

In addition, all types of marine cats migrate. Usually migrations pass in the direction of north-south inside the range of each species. Especially long-range migrations make the northern sea seals, from Kamchatka they sail to thousands of kilometers to the south and winter in California. Migrations are associated with the fact that during the removal of the offspring, marine seals are in colder waters rich food.

Description of the sea cats

The sea cat is not associated with cats and is a lastonous mammal, a representative of the family, eared seals. His closest relative is. In nature, there are 7-9 types of sea seals, which are combined in two kinds - north (one species) and southern Sea seals (other types).

For the sea cat, the typical appearance of most lastonovii is characteristic. The body of an elongated shape with a short neck, a small head, and flattered limbs - flippers. The tail is short and practically not noticeable. Nautical cat is not as thick as, and on the ground moves using all four limbs. Also, the seal seal is distinguished by the presence of ear shells, which is sometimes called eared seal.

The eyes are dark, large, wet. Vision is bad, characteristic of myopia, the rumor and scent is much better. There are marine cats and ability to echolocation. Fur short, very thick and valuable, brown or practically black. The newborn cub is always coal-black, and after the first molting becomes gray. Males and females of marine cats are distinguished by their size: males are more than 4-5 times. While their weight reaches 100-250 kg, the weight of the females is in the range of 25-40 kg.

Common types of marine cats

Northern sea cat (Far Eastern) (Callorhinus Ursinus).

"Classic" spokesman for sea cats. The males in length reach 2.2 m, weigh up to 320 kg. Females with weight 70 kg have a body length of about 1.5 m. Common in the north of the Pacific Ocean to the south of Japan and California.

South American sea cat (Arctocephalus Australis)

The length of the body of males of this form to 1.9 m, a mass of about 200 kg. Females in length 1.40 m, weigh 50 kg. Fur light brown in females and black and gray with maneu in males.

The view includes two subspecies: folkled sea seals (Arctocephalus Australis Australis), which live on the Falkland Islands and the main subspecies of Arctocephalus Australis Gracilis, the inhabitant of the shores of South America. The population today is stable and is not under threat of extinction.

New Zealand Sea Cat (Arctocephalus Forsteri)

This species is painted in gray brown. Males features black mane and body length up to 2.5 m, weight 180 kg. The females in length reach 1.5 m, weigh to 70 kg. The species is found on the coasts of New Zealand, in the south and west of Australia, as well as on some subanutrctic islands.

Galapagos Sea Cattle (Arctocephalus GalapaGoensis)

The smallest look. Length of the body of males 1.5 m, weight up to 64 kg. The length of the body of females is 1.2 m, the weight does not exceed 28 kg. Wool gray brown. This view is the endemic of the Galapagos Islands, where he lives all his life without making migrations.

Kergelen Sea Cat (Arctocephalus Gazella)

The males of this type in length reach 1.9 m, females - 1.3 m. Weight 150 and 50 kg, respectively. Fur gray brown. The male distinguishes the presence of black mane, with gray or white hairs. Habitat Area - Antarctica (South Georgia Islands and South Sandwich, Prince Eduard, Southern Shetland, Southern Orkney, Buveth Islands, Kergelen, Herd and McDonald, Cryau and McQori).

Kapelus Pusillus (Arctocephalus Pusillus)

This species is the largest. The length of the body of males 2.5 m, females - 1.8 m. The subspecies of Arctocephalus Pusillus Pusillus meets on the Atlantic coasts of South Africa and Namibia, can migrate far to the north. The second subspecies of Arctocephalus Pusillus Doriferus lives on the small islands in the Bass Strait.

Guadeloopian Sea Cat (Arctocephalus TownSendi)

Males larger than females. Painted view in dark brown or practically black, with a yellowish back of the neck. The marriage occurs in the east of Guadalupe Island, which is 200 km west of California.

Subtropic Sea Cat (Arctocephalus Tropicalis)

View of medium sizes. The length of the males body is up to 2 m, the weight is about 160 kg, the females are up to 1.4 m in length, weigh about 50 kg. Creamo-orange chest and face, brownish belly. The spin of male dark gray or black, females - light gray. The habitat is wide and partially overlaps with the Kergelen Maritime Cotor. Large colonies dwell on the islands of Hoff in the South Atlantic and Amsterdam in the south of the Indian Ocean.

Lifestyle

In the spring in the bay on sandy or rocky shores, adults are first poured (from 7 to 11 years old) males. Having inspected the terrain from the water, they are chosen on land and "Book a territory, where it will be a harem for 5 to 6 months. A little later fell fools, and their conquest begins. Each male is gaining himself in a harem from 5 to 20 females, and a quiet life ends.

The sekhach is jealously monitors its "concubines" so that they do not move the opponent to its territory. At the leader of the harem on the head of the head, so everyone knew - I am the owner. The idle males, under 6 years old live a separate colony, a little further from the harem. Females, coming to the land, about two days, give birth to one young. Sometimes the kids are two, but it is rare. The weight of the newborn 3 kg, the length of the body is 50cm, and it is absolutely all black.

Kids feed fat (up to 70% fat) and nourishing Mother's milk. A few weeks' female does not leave his cub, feeding it. He is gaining strength, and she needs to eat, and she goes to fishing in the sea, leaving him for a few days of one. Since the kids are born a lot, then they remained alone on the shore, form children's nursery.

The males do not pay any attention to small, and in the fight for the female, they can crush the cub. And females, after a short time, after the birth of a young, mate with the male, to come back here and give birth to offspring. From here we conclude that pregnancy lasts about a year.

Greater, the young play with each other, try to reach the water, and even dive into it. No one helps them, they themselves learn. In the water, they try to tumble, jump and resist the flow. Well, and the female, returning from the sea, easily finds her baby and feed him. If the female perits, and she has a cub, he is also doomed to death. No one will feed him - no female will submit it to him.

Three months later, puppies will be the first molting, they will change to beautiful light gray coats. All summer grows and stronger young young, very soon, in the fall, they will have to leave the frying and go to the warm seas. And this path is not easy if it is getting into the water during a storm, it will die. In a year, the threshing young reaches weight of 15 kg.

Late in the fall, they all leave their roots and float to wintering in warm water. From October to April months, the cats live in water, refilling, and without going to the land. Return to land, these amazing animals in spring are in its place. And everything will happen first.

Food

Feed fish and squid. In search of production dozens swim, or even hundreds of kilometers. Scarce packs is not peculiar. Adult male stomach accommodates 15-16 kilograms of food. Especially large animals - the secect was found in the stomach 20 and even 25 kilograms of the eaten, but it is already rare. Females and youngsters are satisfied with smaller: three to four kilograms they are enough for a day and even more.

Reproduction

The reproduction period comes from each view at different times, most often in the spring. In February-March, the most impatient males enter the shore and begin to guard their plot of the future fantastic from other males. At the beginning of the summer, females joined them and the struggle for them comes into the next stage, when males come into fights, often bloody. The defeated males retreat on another sector and try their strength again. Who was not lucky enough to defend his right to mating goes on the edge of the foolishness and humbly waiting for the end of summer when it is possible to go back to the sea with the whole flock.

Each male can contain a harem to 20 females, but few people manage to successfully cope with constantly attacking competitors. Usually one adult male cares for 2-3 females.

Sea cat and man

The fishery of the sea seals began almost immediately after the opening of the islands. Already in 1745, Emelyan Basov went to the Commander Islands. The hike was successful. 1670 Kalana Skur, 1990 Skur of the Cotes and 2240 Skiing Blue Poxes mined bass with their team.

The news of the successful expedition of Emelyan Basova spurred Russian industrialists. Following him, other Ferry miners reached for the Commander Islands.

In the first half of the XVIII century, marine seals did not have great value. Fur Kotikov was considered much worse than fur of other fur animals. Therefore, attending the islands of industrialists up to 1780, no more than 2,000 cotton skins were exported every year. The demand for cottage fur appeared after the outstanding Russian navigator, an enterprising merchant Gregory Shelekhov managed to organize a massive export of skins to China (it was necessary, and then without the Chinese did not cost). Since 1780, up to 30 thousand maritime cats began to score on the Commander Islands every year. Did not spare anyone, even pregnant females. This, of course, was reflected in the number of cats. Their livestock on the Commander Islands began to shrink.

In 1799, twenty merchants joined their capital, putting the beginning of the largest association of that time - a Russian-American company. It existed almost 70 years. The Russian kings were constant shareholders.

Millions of barbaric animals and millions of purchased rubles - this is the result of the activities of the Russian-American company. Hundreds of thousands of cotton skins rotted in warehouses. They were burned and drowned to the sea to maintain high prices.

Only in 1803 700 thousand cottage skins were destroyed. According to the testimony of contemporaries, in the Unalaxian port in 1809-1812, baths and furnaces were dried by the skins of the cats.

The fishery increased from year to year. "Fair fever" has infected all new and new people. Fishing did not spare either females or babies of the sea cat. By the beginning of the 70s, 19-70 thousand beasts were produced annually on the Commander Islands. After the sale in 1867, the Tsarist Government of Alaska and the Aleuta Islands of the United States of America ceased operations of the Russian-American company. There were still big crowds of adventurers in the hope of getting rich in the hope of rafting.

This is a commercial view of the commanders since the Russian-American campaign. In October, it is hampered by the "Serious" slaughter (4-month puppies, grown over the summer) on the fur. Per year clog from 2 to 7 thousand. In adults, the skins are very thick and rude, many scars. In a word - not a very commercial type.

The traditional food of Aleutov was bachelor (this tradition was preserved on the islands of profit (USA)), now the slaughterhouse of bachelors on the commanders is prohibited and local residents are content with peculiar meat of dairy puppies. Recently there is a reduction in the limit on the bottom of the cat. In 2001, 1500 cats were allocated, in previous years they were allocated to 7,000 heads. In November 2002, only 1000 cats were allocated at the bottom. Scientists explain this to a decrease in the number of the cat.

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Northern Sea Cat - The representative of the laston-eared detachment, the family of eared seal - the real beast, but perfectly adapted to life in the ocean spaces. However, although it is in the water in his element, the connection with the Earth did not lose and holds almost as much time on it in the year, as in the sea.

Zoologists singled out eight different types of these animals, six of which live in the southern hemisphere, one - off the coast of California, and we are also interested in the eighth - Northern Sea Cat. This is the most numerous, interesting and valuable representative of eared seal. Because the story will only go about him, for brevity we will call it a maritime cat, or just a cat.

Here is his portrait. The dense body is like a huge drop - spindle-shaped, perfectly streamlined. Little head with widely placed beautiful dark karium, as if all surprisingly eyes. On a pointed nose, fan of bright long tough mustache. Ear shells are barely noticeable. And instead of the legs, wide, very movable oars. With their help, the beast in the water develops a decent speed, but on land from them there is little, and because it does not walk, and clumsily and hard moves short jumps.

The males and females differ sharply with sizes: an adult cat weighs one or two centners, up to a quarter ton, in exceptional cases of 360 kilograms. But their girlfriends are miniature: four or five times easier.

The fur coat is unusually thick, gentle and silky, color from silver gray to black and brown. It is waterproof, extremely durable and together with a thick layer of fat reliably protects the body of the beast from supercooling. After all, water in warm-blooded animals takes heat 20 times faster than air.

It feeds the cat only in water, mainly squid and fish. Scarce packs is not peculiar. The adult male stomach accommodates 15 - 16 kilograms of food. In particular large animals - the secects were found and the stomach 20 and even 25 kilograms of the eaten, but it is already rare. Females and youngsters are satisfied with smaller: three to four kilograms they are enough for a day and even more.

In the water, the coactics are fast and prompt. Zagreb front oars and pressing the flexible body, they develop the speed of 15-20 kilometers per hour is not a problem. Heat out, they rapidly jump out of the water and fly in the air to four or five meters. Groups and one like dolphins. Deep sighing, the cat dives into the sea depth to 80 - 100 meters, not appearing on the surface of a good tent of minutes.

So wonderful swimmers catch fish, squid, octopus is worth nothing. That is why they are so fat. True, not only because there are many foods. Fat they need both reliable thermal insulation and buoyancy. Almost all marine animals, as you know, have a thick layer of fat under the skin - whales, walruses, seals. And the sekucho cat is also necessary for the multi-month stay on the fokers.

Live cats in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. However, their reproduction places are strictly limited. In addition to the Commander Islands, the family life of the cattle takes place on the island of seal near Sakhalin, on several islands of the Kuril Ridge and on the US-owned islands.

Runing animals are arranged on gentle sandy or pebble island beaches, on slippery huge stones, and even in general on the rocks. On the many ocean islands of the darkness convenient for the seats, and they squeeze, it is often dirty in just a few of them, saving themselves from year to them and no other. And each exactly to the place where it was born.

All a long winter, seals live with solids, groups and small herds on oceanic expanses, but mainly along Kuril, Japan and California. Resting and sleeping there, where they feed, often for hundreds, even thousands of kilometers from the ground. Sleight like this: they pop up, fall on the side, they bring the rear flippers to the head, which is lifted above the water so that it is almost touched by the rear legs, it turns out a peculiar ring.

By the spring, congenital instinct entails maritime cats to each other. Having gotten into herds, they are started at the far path to the north, in the kingdom of the cold and fogs.

Sea seals, despite the name, no relation to cats do not have. These are a lastonous mammals belonging to the family of eared seal. Their closest relatives are animals with another "feline" name - sea lions. In total, there are 7-9 types of marine seals (scientists have not yet come to a common opinion as precisely), which are divided into two kinds - Northern sea seals (1 species) and southern sea seals (all other types).

Kergelen sea cat (Arctocephalus Gazella).

The appearance of these animals is typical for lobs. They have an elongated torso, a relatively short neck, a small head, and the limbs are flattened and turned into flippers. Compared with real seals, marine seals are not so thick and move on land leaning on all four limbs, while seals crawl on the brokes dragging the back legs. The tail in these animals is so short that is practically not visible. Unlike real seals, sea seals have ear shells, for which they were called eared seals.

The ears from the sea cats are completely tiny, at first they will not notice them.

The eyes of these animals are large and dark, as if they are inspired by moisture. Sea seals are pretty mining, although they have a well-developed rumor and smell. These animals are also capable of echolocation as dolphins. For sea cats, though short, but very thick, so highly appreciated. Coloring animals more often drowned, sometimes almost black. Newborn cats are always pure-black, after molting they wear juvenile (that is, inherent in only young animals) a gray fur. The males and females in the marine cats are very different in size: males look massive due to the thick neck and exceed the females in size 4-5 times! The weight of males of a large northern sea cat can reach 100-250 kg, while the females weigh only 25-40 kg.

Sleeping female sea cat.

Sea seals live on the coasts of the seas and oceans and are never found in the inner reservoirs. Since these animals are more mobile than seals, they often take not only gentle, but also steep rocky shores. The range of various species covers the entire Pacific pool from Alaska and Kamchatka in the north to Australia and the Southernarchian Islands in the south. In addition, the Kapsky sea cat lives on the coast of the desert Namib in South Africa. This is the only marine mammal, about which we can say that it lives in the desert!

Catics have a pronounced old character, their fokers are numbering several thousand animals, often living in cramped and crushing. Usually on the shore animals rest, and the sea go faded. However, each such hunting can last up to 2-3 days, so the cats can also sleep in water.

The rookery of the sea cats.

In addition, all types of marine cats migrate. Usually migrations pass in the direction of north-south inside the range of each species. Especially long-range migrations make the northern sea seals, from Kamchatka they sail to thousands of kilometers to the south and winter in California. Migrations are associated with the fact that during the removal of the offspring, marine seals are in colder waters rich food. In the grindiness, animals behave differently: small females have a meek character and, as a rule, do not conflict among themselves, but the knife is not at all "cat." They often find out the relationship among themselves, and they do it not only in the marriage period. Adult males should not bite a smaller female or throw a cub aside if he believes that those prevent him in the way. On the rookers of the cats behave quite loudly, their locations were announced by noise in contrast to seals, which were almost silent. Despite the stadium, sea seals do not show solidarity and do not make organized joint actions: each beast is hunting alone, separately comes and leaves the shore. At the same time, these animals have a high level of intelligence, they are quickly trained and able to learn many complex teams.

Sea seals eat predominantly fish, less commonly can eat cephalters. In water, these are deft and rapid predators, besides, rather voracious. By the fall, sea seams accumulate a thick layer of subcutaneous fat.

This New Zealand Sea Kitty (ArctoCephalus Forsteri) feels completely free in the water.

The reproduction of sea cats occurs in the spring. Only among the northern sea seals spring comes in May-June, and the southern, on the contrary, in November. In the period of Gon, the males sail on the summer fokers and occupy the plots in accordance with their status: large males in the middle of the rookery, small and weak - on the periphery. The males begin to roar loudly, thereby denoting the boundaries of their territories. If the interests of the neighbors face the cats enter each other into battle, fiercely biting the opponent for the neck. However, more often they are limited to demonstration of strength, avoiding direct clashes. Females can freely move around the fokest territory, however, each male is jealously monitors their friends and trying to prevent their females on the opponent's territory. Thus, around each male is formed by a harem, its size and number depend on the status of the male: in large secshes in the harem can be up to 20 females, in small - only a few individuals.

The male of the sea cat guardes two females, not allowing other males to get closer to them.

Pregnancy females last year, so childbirth also occurs during the Gon. Each female gives birth right in the harem and the first days carefully protects the young, whose weight is only 2 kg. Then the mother is forced to leave the kid to feed in the sea. Young remains on the shore and are subject to many dangers from ... fathers. The fact is that the Terrible Sekachi does not ceremony with their own offspring and can simply crush the kids with their weight or throw them aside. It is during this period that a considerable number of the cubs die. The second wave of danger occurs after a couple of months, when young begin to go into the water. Inexperienced animals often become mining sharks and kitkeeper. On the coast of Chile, Kosykaki specially sail to the shores at this time to quit at easy production. In pursuit of marine quotes, they are even thrown into the bar of the surf.

Sea cat makes incredible jumps in desperate effort to get away from the shark.

In addition to natural enemies, a considerable damage population brings and hunting. And today, the extraction of cats is carried out on an industrial scale. Only the cubs are killed (their best quality fur), besides the skins also use meat and fat of these animals. However, the main production goes precisely for the fashion industry. Some subspecies of the sea seals are on the verge of extinction.