Sentences with phrase «as sea lions»

One dive - industry professional told his story of decades of coastal fishing, including years of highly damaging activities like using marine mammals such as sea lions for bait.

Ubisoft's «Watch Dogs 2» video game features such popular San Francisco tourist attractions as the sea lions around Fisherman's Wharf, but the farther it strays from the city, the more liberties it takes.

Each tour includes in - depth touring with the best naturalist guides and daily opportunities for extraordinary encounters with Galapagos wildlife, such as sea lions, sea turtles, marine iguanas, blue - footed boobies and penguins.

You will also enjoy the other iconic animals, such as sea lions, marine iguanas, Sally Lightfoot crabs, and giant tortoises at the Charles Darwin Research Center.

As we paddle, we are likely to be sharing the waters with sea turtles as well as sea lions which observe us and may even follow along for a spell.

You will also see some almost ever - present creatures such as sea lions, creole fish and blue striped sea slugs.

This strait within the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago is home to some unique and rare wildlife such as sea lions, penguins and even an endemic species of dolphin.

Inside the 140,000 square kilometer marine reserve that surrounds these islands, species such as sea lions and penguins, normally indigenous to cooler regions, live side - by - side with a host of sharks, reef fish and sea turtles commonly found in more tropical climates.

It will also look for wildlife such as sea lions, birds, dolphin or whales if they are in the immediate area.

With their unique diving abilities that allow them to swim where few humans have gone before, ocean mammals such as sea lions (pictured) are being outfitted with sensors that stick to their fur and later fall off when they molt.

You'll get a great tour of the shore, with the guides giving informative and light - hearted lectures about the buildings on land and the wildlife in the sea, such as sea lions and leopard sharks.

Are you tempted to work in a unique environment where soils support habitats for wildlife such as sea lions, elephant seals, albatrosses, penguins, sooty shearwaters, white - chinned petrels, prions and rare and endemic passerines and wild flowers?

Instead, retaining the claws probably helps northern true seals catch a larger meal than they could with the stiff, slippery fins of other pinnipeds such as sea lions and fur seals, Hocking and his colleagues report April 18 in Royal Society Open Science.

He was Chef Bogo the water buffalo police captain in Zootopia, and will be lending his voice to Finding Dory as a sea lion this summer.

Recently named by Georgia Aquarium's fans, Jupiter and Neptune will serve as sea lion ambassadors to educate the public about the challenges these animals face in the oceans, including dwindling food sources.

Excitement rushes over you as a sea lion follows the school of fish.

Overlooks, such as Sea Lion Rookery, Webster Point, and Elephant Seal Cove, provide excellent spots to look down on seals and sea lions.

Few marine creatures seem to enjoy life as much as the Sea Lion does.

Not exact matches

For example, how is that a sea lion, once they enter the water, that it's heart rate drops, blood vessels constrict, and lungs begins to collapse, whereby blood flows as usual to the heart and brain, but less reaches non-vital organs for swimming, and are now able to draw on oxygen in the muscles and blood?

Modern Family members Ed O'Neill and Ty Burrell will play an octopus who's missing a tentacle and a whale respectively, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton will lend their pipes as Dory's parents, Idris Elba and Dominic West are a couple of sea lions and Kaitlin Olsen will voice a lovable whale shark.

Gold Sea Lion as the prominent color — but I think it would look good fully embracing an evergreen backdrop as its secondary color... rather than the dark green.

Construction could start as early as July on Lisle's new Sea Lion Aquatic Park.

The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

I think that hanging out in a heavily touristed area of San Francisco's Embarcadero means that these California sea lions — one mature individual and one pup — qualify as urban wildlife.

The Columbia River has previously been identified as an area with high marine mammal consumption of salmon, specifically by seals and sea lions in the estuary.

Study co-author Dr Carolina Loch says this was the first time the enamel ultrastructure of fur seals and sea lions, as well as the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos, was studied using scanning electron microscopy.

As populations of sea lions and seals in northern habitats continue to decline, satellites are providing scientists with a better understanding of the animals» feeding patterns.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

That suggests that the removal of a limited number of sea lions in such programs is unlikely to affect the population as a whole, Melin said.

«Given the likelihood that the California sea lion population is approaching carrying capacity, density - dependent effects such as food limitation (and stranding) of pups may be a long - term consequence of a rebuilt sea lion population during periods of low abundance of high - quality forage,» the scientists wrote.

The latest spike in sea lion strandings began before the current El Niño pattern took hold, and before the large expanse of warm water known as «the blob» began dominating West Coast Waters in 2014.

The study by NOAA Fisheries scientists is the first to analyze changes in fish populations sea lions prey on for clues as to what is causing the record strandings.

Researchers have already blamed die - offs of migratory birds and sea lions on The Blob; concerns are now that salmon harvests this summer will be depressed as a result of the warm water.

Background Mammals that have evolved to live in cold waters, such as whales, seals, sea lions and polar bears, commonly have a layer of blubber.

For decades, zoologists had suspected that marine mammals such as seals and sea lions collapse their lungs to withstand water pressures and endure deep dives.

«Sea lions can be seen as sentinels of human health,» says Kathi Lefebvre, a research biologist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, Washington, who was not involved with the work.

Many fish, marine mammals and birds are also found in kelp forest communities, including rockfish, seals, sea lions, whales, gulls, terns, snowy egrets as well as some shore birds.

The study also hints at what the ancestral placental mammal — the one that ultimately gave rise to creatures as disparate as tree sloths and sea lions — looked like.

Not only did the researchers find the fossils among the remains of undeniably aquatic animals — such as fish, sea lions, dolphins, and whales — but also this sloth had the bones of a swimmer.

So it should come as no surprise that the lion's mane targets the invasive sea walnut — though it is not as successful as it is against more familiar prey.

Yet C. lenticarpus could probably get around well on land using its flippers, just as seals and sea lions do today.

The sea lions switched to leaner market squid, shortbelly rockfish and other less - common prey such as mackerel and hake, according to new studies of their scat.

The base near Washington's Puget Sound is slated to receive up to 20 Navy - trained bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions to patrol the shoreline around the submarine base as part of a bolstered security initiative started after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

«What we've done since then is develop a reference library of the microbial communities that occur in different types of poop — we have cows, horses, raccoons, humans, different types of birds, pigs, sea lions, and other animals, as well as sewage and septage.

«Berns also peeks into the gray matter of dolphins, sea lions, and Tasmanian devils, bolstering his contention that both four - footed and sea - dwelling mammals think and feel much as we do, a sentiment animal lovers and fans of books by Jane Goodall, E. O. Wilson, and Jeffrey Moussaieff Mason will heartily embrace.»

eharmony will be expanding the new offering in coming months to other animals, such as cats, rabbits, horses, sea lions, and dolphins.

As we're only talking theoretically, it is a less crowded field, so far: Davis will get her nod and is the frontrunner to win, with nominee potential for Greta Gerwig (20th Century Women), Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea), Naomie Harris (Moonlight), and Nicole Kidman (Lion).

The opening shots of rolling sea and thundering Berber cavalry, well - handled as they are, don't really hint that The Wind and the Lion is going to be a good — more precisely, a special — movie.

The movie also boasts a better voice cast than the original, including standouts like Ed O'Neill (as a cantankerous octopus named Hank), Ty Burrell (as an insecure beluga whale) and «The Wire» stars Idris Elba and Dominic West (as a pair of lazy sea lions), resulting in several memorable new characters.

While my writing them here won't do them justice, quips like «Slice me a off a piece of pie and serve it up hot, I'm next in line» dubbed over a segment of lions mating and «When a shark appears, sea lions jump ashore — luckily there aren't any tigers waiting for them, otherwise they wouldn't know what the fuck to do» voiced while watching a pack of sea lions, should give you an idea as to how idiotic these guys are.