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SUIDA Wild Boars |
Body length 110-160cm, tail length 60-80cm.
There are a few wild boar in the district which snow accumulates on deeply in winter.
There is vertical stripes pattern in the body, and a child called "Uri-bo" means gourd. |
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CERVIDAE Shika deer |
Body length 90-190cm, shoulder height 60-130cm.
A deer lives from Hokkaido in the north to the southern island.
A body is big as much as a deer to live in the north, and has three times of a deer to live in the south, too. |
The size comparison of
the Shika deer's sub species
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CERVIDAE
Reeve's Muntjac (importation kind) |
Body length 47-70cm, shoulder height 30-50cm.
It is the animal of the deer family from Chinese Hara. |
BOVIDAE
Domestic Goat (importation kind) |
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The goat kept as a livestock became the wild. |
BOVIDAE Japanese serow |
Body length 70-85cm, shoulder height 70-75cm.
Japanese serow is protected as a special natural monument.
The kind that it looks like Japanese serow is only in Taiwan. |
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OTARIIDAE Sea lion |
Male 2.4m long, 500kg weight. Female 1.8m long, 120kg weight.
The Japanese Sea lion which lived in the Japanese seashore died out at 1972. |
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OTARIIDAE Steller's Sea-lion |
Male 3m long, 1000kg weight. Female 2.3m long, 300kg weight.
The sea lion family use forefeet like a fin when they swim. |
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OTARIIDAE Northern Fur Seal |
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Male 2m long, 200kg weight. Female 1.3m long, 40kg weight. |
ODOBENIDAE Walrus |
Male 3.2m long, 1200kg weight. Female 2.6m long, 800kg weight.
Sometime, male become the length 4 m and weight 3 tons over.
They living in the Arctic Circle by nature. It has never been recorded in Japan several times. |
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PHOCIDAE
Common Seal (Harbor Seal) |
Body length 170-190cm.
It is seen in Hokkaido for all the year over, and it breeds in Hokkaido.
A baby is a blackish color. |
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PHOCIDAE
Larga Seal (Spotted Seal) |
Body length 160-170cm.
This seal lives in Hokkaido, too.
Because it breeds on the drift ice, a baby covered white fur. |
PHOCIDAE Ringed Seal |
Body length 1.2-1.3m.
Ringed Seal is the smallest in the Japanese seal. |
PHOCIDAE Ribbon Seal |
Body length 1.6m.
This Seal is characterized by its ribbon patterns of the cream. A baby is pure white. |
PHOCIDAE Bearded seal |
Body length 2.3m.
It is the biggest seal in the Japanese nearby seas.
It is unusually seen in Hokkaido the north island of Japan. An original inhabiting stage is around the Arctic Circle. |
