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===Predators=== Ringed seals are an important food item in particular for [[polar bear]]s.<ref>C. Michael Hogan (2008) [http://globaltwitcher.auderis.se/artspec_information.asp?thingid=36084 ''Polar Bear: Ursus maritimus'', globalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308140245/http://globaltwitcher.auderis.se/artspec_information.asp?thingid=36084 |date=2012-03-08 }}</ref> During the pupping season, [[Arctic fox]] and [[glaucous gulls]] take ringed seal pups born outside lairs while [[killer whales]], [[Greenland shark]]s and occasionally Atlantic [[walruses]] prey upon them in the water.<ref name="Krafft 2006">{{cite journal |last1=Krafft |first1=B. A. |last2=Kovacs |first2=K. M. |last3=Frie |first3=A. K. |last4=Haug |first4=T. |last5=Lydersen |first5=C. |title=Growth and population parameters of ringed seals (''Pusa hispida'') from Svalbard, Norway, 2002β2004 |journal=[[ICES Journal of Marine Science]] |date=2006 |volume=63 |issue=6 |pages=1136β1144 |doi=10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.04.001|bibcode=2006ICJMS..63.1136K }}</ref>
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