What country has the only freshwater seal?

1. Where is the only freshwater seal?
2. Do any seals live in freshwater?
3. What is the world's only indigenous species of freshwater seals?
4. How many freshwater seals are there?

Where is the only freshwater seal?

The Baikal seal, Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica), is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Like the Caspian seal, it is related to the Arctic ringed seal. The Baikal seal is one of the smallest true seals and the only exclusively freshwater pinniped species.

Do any seals live in freshwater?

The Lake Baikal seal, Pusa sibirica, is the only exclusively freshwater seal. Some 80,000 to 100,000 seals are thought to live on or near the big lake. They are found nowhere else in the world.

What is the world's only indigenous species of freshwater seals?

One of its most famous animal species is the Baikal seal (also called the nerpa). It is one of the world's smallest seals, and it is the only species of seal in the world to live exclusively in a freshwater habitat.

How many freshwater seals are there?

Freshwater marine mammals are some of the most endangered wildlife populations on the planet – and there are only about 400 Iliamna Lake seals. Because the population is small and elusive, more time is needed to study the seals to determine the best way to conserve their habitat and protect their population.