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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- University of Illinois Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Brehms Tierleben, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Brehm, Alfred Edmund
- Publisher:
- Leipzig, Vienna: Bibliographisches Institut, 1900
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of a group of harbor seals lying in sand dunes by the sea with seabirds prowling around.
Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) are marine mammals in the family Phocidae. They are found in the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans where they feed on fish, mollusks, and crustaceans.
The caption reads in the original German: Seehund.
Keywords: 1900s, 20th century, Brehms Tierleben, color, mammal, marine mammal, Phocidae, reference book, seafront, tawny
