Crabeater seals have 32 teeth - 8 inscisors, 4 canines and 20 post-canine teeth. The latter cannot be subdivided into molars and premolars due to the specialised nature of the crabeater's teeth. They are multi-cusped with gaps between each cusp and they interlock with the teeth on the opposing jaw to form a filter. This is used to filter out krill from the seawater - a more efficient method than grabbing the krill one at a time. Krill are their main prey; they do not eat crabs.
Crabeater seals are called crabeater seals because of the way their teeth look.
No because it migrates!
some antarctic seals eat squid but the crabeater seal does not
Crabeater seals are large seals. They are a light color. Young ones have brown markings. They are chubby on the top portion of their body, and then become slender on the bottom half. They have sweet faces.
They mate from early September to late November.
Yes! they prey on young Antarctic Fur seals, Crabeater Seals, Ross Seals And Weddell Seals
Penguins (emperor and adelie) seals (leopard seals; antarctic fur seals; crabeater seals; ross seals and weddell seals) whales(orcas(killer whales))
The answer is predation!
A Leopard Seals percentage of diet is: Krill (47%), Other Seals (31%), young Crabeater Seals and penguins (11%), and fish and cephalopods (11%)
it is the crabeater seal
Thay would die out as they have nothing to eat
leopard seal, crabeater seal, elephant seal - live in the Antartica.