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For example, the nerpa is the world's only freshwater seal, and it lives only in Lake Baikal.
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Seen by some as a dependable indicator of Baikal's health - the "canary in the mine," so to speak - is a charming little mammal called the nerpa, the world's only freshwater seal.
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Seen by some as a dependable indicator of Baikal’s health — the “canary in the mine,” so to speak — is a charming little mammal called the nerpa, the world’s only freshwater seal.
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The pollution killed plants, crabs and fish and threatened the world's only freshwater seal, the earless nerpa.
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The most noteworthy aquatic species is the unique nerpa, the freshwater Baikal seal Phoca sibirica.
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Cut off from the sea, the nerpa adapted and now thrive in the freshwater environment, threatened by no predator except man.
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As viruses often do, it ran its course and the nerpa population recovered.
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Vazhenkov said there had been a "huge die-off" of Baikal's indigenous seal or nerpa population
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Luke Hardin 2010
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Cut off from the sea, the nerpa adapted and now thrive in the freshwater environment, threatened by no predator except man.
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As viruses often do, it ran its course and the nerpa population recovered.
chained_bear commented on the word nerpa
See earless nerpa.
March 13, 2009