Today most seals live in the cold waters near the Arctic and the Antarctic. It is known that some eared seals migrate seasonally over long distances usually after their summer breeding season. In order to communicate, seals make sounds underwater. These sounds are whoops, screams, barks, moans, and wails. The fur seals walk clumsily on land or ice because they rotate their large flippers back and forth to function as legs.
Seals live most of their life in the water.
They generally do not dive very deep and stay underwater for only a couple of minutes. As a seal starts to dive, its heart rate starts to slow to about one tenth of its heart rate at the water surface. The deepest diving seals stay underwater for one to two hours. Older seals produce a think layer of fat called blubber. Most new born seals have little or no blubber.