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One species, the northern fur seal ( Callorhinus ursinus ) inhabits the North Pacific, while seven species in the Arctocephalus genus are found primarily in the Southern Hemisphere.
While northern fur seal males aggressively select and defend the specific females in their harems, males of southern species of fur seals tend to protect spatial territories, and females are free to choose or switch their mates according to their own preference or social hierarchy.
Many populations, notably the Guadalupe fur seal, northern fur seal and Cape fur seal, suffered dramatic declines and are still recovering.
The charter granted the company a monopoly over the Indian Trade, especially the fur trade, in the region watered by all rivers and streams flowing into Hudson Bay in northern Canada.
Also, the lynx's colouring, fur height and paw size varies by its climate rangein the Southwestern United States, the fur and colour are short-haired, dark and the paws are smaller and less padded ; as the lynx ranges to its colder northern climates, the fur gets progressively thicker ( for warmth ), the colour gets lighter ( for camouflage ) and its paws enlarge and become more padded ( for snowy environments ).
According to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Métis were historically the children of French fur traders and Nehiyaw women or, from unions of English or Scottish traders and northern Dene women ( Anglo-Métis ).
At the time, other eastern and northern tribes were pushing on to the Plains, in search of game for the fur trade, bison, and more horses.
Recent genetic evidence, however, strongly suggests Callorhinus, the genus of the northern fur seal, is more closely related to some sea lion species than to the other fur seal genus, Arctocephalus.
**** Genus Callorhinus ( northern fur seal ; one species )
Males of some species, including elephant seals, South American sea lions, and northern fur seals, aggressively defend groups of specific females, referred to as harems.
Steller sea lions eat northern fur seal pups, common seal pups, and birds.
Very occasionally, they have been known to prey on northern fur seals, harbor seals and sea otter pups.
Settlements in Loreto, Baja California Sur were established in 1697, but it was not until the threat of incursion by Russian fur traders and potentially settlers, coming down from Alaska in 1765, that Spain, under King Charles III, felt development of more northern installations were necessary.
In 1814 Alexander Ross, a fur trader with the North West Company, seeking a viable route across the mountains, explored and crossed the northern Cascades between Fort Okanogan and Puget Sound.
In 1837 there was again a station of the fur traders facing the northern mouth of the Crow Wing River.
One of the most notable sights on the island are the northern fur seal rookeries.
Marie, on both sides of the northern border, until the decline of the fur trade in the 1830s.
When Stephen Powers visited the northern Paiute to collect Indian materials for the Smithsonian Institution in preparation for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, he reported that the northern Paiute wrapped their hair in strips of beaver fur, made medicine from parts of beaver and that their creation legend included beaver.

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The only other fur seal found in the Northern Hemisphere is the Guadalupe fur seal which overlaps slightly with the northern fur seal's range in California.

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The White River, flowing east to west south of Bedford, Indiana, delimits the northern range of Amblyopsis spelaea.
The Lesser Caucasus range extends through northern Armenia, runs southeast between Lake Sevan and Azerbaijan, then passes roughly along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border to Iran.
The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.
In areas of northern Europe, there are programs in place that allow hunting of the red fox in the arctic fox's previous range.
Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico.
Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.
* C. l. thamnos: Northeastern coyote – range extends from north-central Saskatchewan east to southern Ontario, south to northern Indiana and west to Missouri
* Cape Breton Highlands, a mountain range in northern Cape Breton Island
The northern range of mountains, the Sierra Madre, form a continuous chain along the border with Honduras.
Originating in Guatemala, the Rio Lempa cuts across the northern range of mountains, flows along much of the central plateau, and finally cuts through the southern volcanic range to empty into the Pacific.
* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.
The northern regions around Mazar-i-Sharif and Maymanah were the home range for about six million karakul sheep in the late 1990s.
Its ancestor may have migrated from eastern to northern Africa and then to its current range with the development of the Sahara desert.
The northern frontiers of India are defined largely by the Himalayan mountain range, where the country borders China, Bhutan, and Nepal.
Mean minimum temperatures in the winter range from near freezing ( just before dawn ) in the northern and northeastern foothills and the western desert to and in the alluvial plains of southern Iraq.
Regional climatic variations range from humid continental in the northern island of Hokkaido extending down through Northern Japan to the Central Highland, then blending with and eventually changing to a humid subtropical climate on the Pacific Coast and ultimately bordering very closely with a tropical climate on the Ryukyu Islands.
The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico across much of Central America and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina.
Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana.
The Lebanon Mountains are the highest, most rugged, and most imposing of the whole maritime range of mountains and plateaus that start with the Amanus or Nur Mountains in northern Syria and end with the towering massif of Sinai.
Along the coast the proximity to the sea provides a moderating influence on the climate, making the range of temperatures narrower than it is inland, but the temperatures are cooler in the northern parts of the coast where there is also more rain.
The northern section of the country is formed by part of the plateau of the Ardennes, where the mountain heights range from 1, 500 to almost 2, 000 feet ( 460 – 610 m ) high.

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Galilee ( HaGalil, lit: the province,, Latin: Galileia, al-Jalīl ), is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District and Haifa District of the country.
* The West Coast bush weta H. broughi largely overlaps with the Wellington tree weta in Nelson and the northern portion of the West Coast.
It overlaps, but is not conterminous with, the Bregenz Forest Mountains which are a range of the Northern Limestone Alps, specifically the northern flysch zone.
The southern widow is primarily found in ( and is indigenous to ) the southeastern United States, ranging from Florida to New York, and west to Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Nevada The northern black widow ( L. variolus ) is found primarily in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, though its range overlaps with that of L. mactans.
The northern area focuses on the Rhine area that belongs to the Bell Beaker West Group, while the southern area occupies the Danube river system and belongs to the homogeneous East Group which overlaps with the Corded Ware Culture and other groups of the Late Neolithic and of the earliest Bronze Age.
The crater overlaps a smaller crater formation to the northwest, and Amundsen A is attached to the northern rim.
The southern part of the Wapack Trail overlaps with the northern part of the Midstate Trail.
Centered on Silesia in Poland, eastern Germany and the northern Czech Republic, it overlaps with the Lengyel horizon to the south, and the Rössen culture to the west.
The winter range in northern Australia overlaps with that of wintering Barn Swallow ( Hirundo rustica ), but the latter is readily separable by its blue breast band.
The rim overlaps a slightly smaller crater to the east, and has a pair of small impact craters in the northern wall.
In the northern part of New Mexico, KKTV's broadcast area overlaps with that of KRQE's, especially in New Mexico's Capital, Santa Fe.
U. S. Route 40 overlaps I-70 throughout the northern and eastern sections of the loop.
Through Gloucester, the road overlaps the A40 Gloucester northern bypass past a large Shell petrol station, and from the end of this bypass, at a roundabout, the road goes north-west through the village of Maisemore, past Hartpury College, then through the village Hartpury and then past a BP petrol station.
In southern South America, it is replaced by a close relative, the Chimango Caracara ( Milvago chimango ), whose range overlaps with that of the Yellow-headed Caracara in southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Area which Stari Grad covers is either simply styled " downtown " or by the names of the more established neighborhood which it overlaps: northern (" Upper ") and eastern parts of Dorćol ( which it borders on the north ) or Studentski Trg.
In the village center, NY 104 briefly overlaps NY 3 and intersects the northern terminus of NY 69.
Illinois 127 overlaps Illinois Route 146 near Jonesboro, Illinois Route 149 in Murphysboro, Illinois Route 13 from Pickneyville to Murphysboro, U. S. Route 50 in Carlyle, Illinois Route 140 near Greenville, Illinois Route 16 in Hillsboro and wrong-way with Illinois 48 at its northern terminus.
In the town of Lysander, NY 48 overlaps NY 631 for a short distance westward to an intersection with the northern end of NY 690.
Today, the land consists of 44, 807 square kilometers and is located in northern Alberta, with overlaps into the Northwest Territories.
Attached to the northern outer rim is the relatively fresh satellite crater Tsinger Y, which, together with Tsinger, partly overlaps the much older crater Tsinger W.
In the northern half of the floor is a merged pair of craters that partly overlaps the northern rim.

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