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Crabeater Seals lounging on the ice, Antarctica.
Credit: User:Jerzystrzelecki

The Crabeater Seal, Lobodon carcinophaga, is one of the most remarkable, though least known, of the mammals of the world. More than one in every two seals in the world is a Crabeater Seal and the population biomass of Crabeaters is about four times that of all other pinnipeds put together.