Hello! Welcome to my first page! I'm Tabby, but also Nermal, Jones, etc. I'm an 18 year old artist who likes lots of things. My favorite of these things include: Pokemon, sea creatures, my ocs, cute girls, anthro animals, splatoon, warrior cats and more. I'm not too good at coding... like total noob. So I guess this page is just for me to learn, and have a place to put all my links!
Pinnipeds can be found in a variety of aquatic habitats, including coastal water, open ocean, brackish water and even freshwater lakes and rivers. The Baikal seal is the only exclusively freshwater species. Most seals inhabit coastal areas, though some travel offshore and feed in deep waters off oceanic islands. Pinnipeds also use a number of terrestrial habitats and substrates, both continental and island. In temperate and tropical areas, they haul out on to sandy and pebble beaches, rocky shores, shoals, mud flats, tide pools and in sea caves. Some species also rest on man-made structures, like piers, jetties, buoys and oil platforms. Pinnipeds may move further inland and rest in sand dunes or vegetation, and may even climb cliffs. New Zealand sea lions are the only pinnipeds that can be found up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) inland in forests. Polar-living species haul out on to both fast ice and drift ice. They use the ice platforms for breeding and raising young seal pups. Ringed seals build dens underneath fast ice.
Pinnipeds spend many months at a time at sea, so they must sleep in the water. Scientists have recorded them sleeping for minutes at a time while slowly drifting downward in a belly-up orientation. Like other marine mammals, seals sleep in water with half of their brain awake so that they can detect and escape from predators. When they are asleep on land, both sides of their brain go into sleep mode.
Pinnipeds can be found in a variety of aquatic habitats, including coastal water, open ocean, brackish water and even freshwater lakes and rivers. The Baikal seal is the only exclusively freshwater species. Most seals inhabit coastal areas, though some travel offshore and feed in deep waters off oceanic islands. Pinnipeds also use a number of terrestrial habitats and substrates, both continental and island. In temperate and tropical areas, they haul out on to sandy and pebble beaches, rocky shores, shoals, mud flats, tide pools and in sea caves. Some species also rest on man-made structures, like piers, jetties, buoys and oil platforms. Pinnipeds may move further inland and rest in sand dunes or vegetation, and may even climb cliffs. New Zealand sea lions are the only pinnipeds that can be found up to 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) inland in forests. Polar-living species haul out on to both fast ice and drift ice. They use the ice platforms for breeding and raising young seal pups. Ringed seals build dens underneath fast ice.
Pinnipeds spend many months at a time at sea, so they must sleep in the water. Scientists have recorded them sleeping for minutes at a time while slowly drifting downward in a belly-up orientation. Like other marine mammals, seals sleep in water with half of their brain awake so that they can detect and escape from predators. When they are asleep on land, both sides of their brain go into sleep mode.
