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At <strong>Notre-Dame-du-Portage<\/strong>, opposite \u00cele au Li\u00e8vres in the Bas-Saint-Laurent, hundreds of harp seals were gathered near the ice on New Year&#8217;s Day. The next day the ice was gone&#8230; and so were the seals. The life of these seals follows the rhythm of the ice. They generally arrive in the St. Lawrence concurrently with the formation of ice, and head back to the Arctic when it disappears. Moreover, their scientific name <em>Pagophilus groenlandicus<\/em> means &#8220;ice lover&#8221;, in reference to their habitat.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of ice, a question arose amongst observers at the mouth of the Saguenay on the afternoon of January: are those ice floes, or the backs of belugas? This time, they were indeed belugas, confirms a GREMM team member following them closely with his binoculars from the Marine Mammal Interpretation Centre in <strong>Tadoussac<\/strong>! 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