Males have a large head with a long pointed snout. Females are like Northern Fur Seals, but have lar… read more
Head is short and nose is very sharply pointed. Also distinguished from Guadalupe Fur Seal by having… read more
Bearlike head with a short straight snout. Larger and paler than California Sea Lion. Males have lon… read more
Unique with doglike face and brown color. Males are larger, darker, and have a thick neck and an enl… read more
Walrus Odobenus rosmarus
A large pinkish seal with tusks, which are greatly enlarged canine teeth. Broad snout is covered wit… read more
A large seal with a small head and prominent whiskers. Foreflippers are square-shaped. Whiskers are … read more
A large gray seal with an exaggerated snout. Larger than the Harbor Seal, with a less doglike face. … read more
A brown seal with whitish ribbons around their head and flippers. Male is dark brown; female is ligh… read more
Third largest of all seals, with a uniform brownish back and yellowish belly. Male is unmistakable w… read more
A wide-ranging grayish seal usually found hauled out on rocks. Color pattern may be dark with irregu… read more
Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus
Unique with mottled gray color and low rounded hump in place of dorsal fin. Narrow triangular head i… read more
Minke Whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Unique with white band on flippers and a sharply pointed snout. Flippers are rarely all dark. Hooked… read more
Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus
The world’s largest animal, and the largest animal ever to exist, they are mottled blue with a U-sha… read more
Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus
The world’s second largest animal is a large whale with smooth gray skin and a V-shaped head. Unders… read more
Dark whale with remarkably long, knobby flippers. Top of flippers are dark in the Pacific race and w… read more
Large black whale with large callosities and no dorsal fin. Smooth slope of back is different from B… read more
A short-beaked dolphin with yellow and gray hourglass coloration. The four-part hourglass color sche… read more
Short flippers have a gently curved edge. Seven to nine pairs of teeth. Nomadic groups of 10-30 in d… read more
Has long flippers with a sharp elbow-like bend. 8-12 pairs of teeth.. … read more
Blunt-nosed dolphin with three-part color pattern and black beak. Back is dark gray, sides are strea… read more
Our only slender, beaked dolphin without a dorsal fin. All other dark dolphins have blunt faces and … read more
Large, black dolphin with high dorsal fin and white eyespot. Male is larger and has an erect dorsal … read more
Unique with dark eye-to-anus stripe and a pale marking below dorsal fin. Typically grayish, but may … read more
Spotted dolphin with a gray band between eye and flipper. Dark dorsally with pale spots and white un… read more
Large, plain gray dolphin with short, wide beak, wide head and body, and long flippers. Tall dorsal … read more
Unique blunt-faced porpoise boldly patterned with black and white. Fluke and dorsal fin also colored… read more
Unique large whale with square head, undersized lower jaw, and wrinkled skin. Body color varies from… read more
Manatee Trichechus manatus
Unmistakable slow-moving mammal with a blunt nose and a broad spatulate tail. Gray skin is often gre… read more
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