Animals

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Specimens living under human protection, i.e., zoos, usually live up to five years, but many cases are as long-lived as those in the wild.

It lives on the British Isles, in central Europe, western Russia and northwestern China. It does not occur on the Iberian Peninsula.

They include murine typhus, tapeworms, mycoplasma haemofelis, and cat scratch disease. The disease is transmitted by leaving small samples of saliva on the host body.

Males typically weigh between 32 to 48 kg, but their weight can exceed 75 kg. Females generally weigh between 25 and 43 kg.

They are fairly independent, usually grouping with the rest of the pups in the warmer water, until they are large enough to survive on their own.