Ringed seal

Ringed seals are the smallest and most common earless seals living in the . They are specially adapted to live and breed in the Arctic ice, building ice caves above their breathing holes to protect their pups from predators such as . They excavate these lairs by scraping at the ice with their front flippers. There are several subspecies of the ringed seal, two of which live in freshwater lakes in Finland and .

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Ringed_seal

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