Sentences with phrase «feeding grounds of»

Two years ago this month, an edge - pushing environmental entrepreneur and a company formed by a Native Canadian village set off a wave of international protest by dispersing a pink slurry of 100 tons of iron - rich dust over one of the 60 - mile - wide ocean eddies that routinely drift across the salmon feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska.

These amazing cetaceans will enjoy the warmer water of the Great Barrier Reef to calve and mate before returning on their 10,000 km round trip back to the feeding grounds of Antarctica.

Humpback whales coming from the feeding grounds of Antarctica migrate to Flinders Bay in Augusta to find a mate before their northward journey.

The Arctic feeding grounds of the gray whale are critical to their survival, as they must eat enough to sustain them until they return the next year.

These are known to be the summer feeding grounds of the Northern Resident Orcas, or killer whales and surround the protected Robson Bight Ecological Reserve.

The North Island Kayak Four Day Orcas and the Humpbacks Sea Kayaking Adventure concentrates on the areas known to be the primary summer range of Northern Resident Orca (killer whale) population and the summer feeding grounds of an ever increasing number of Humpback Whales.

The gray whales make the trek to Alaska to the feeding grounds of the Bering Sea to feast on millions of tiny crustaceans — a delicacy in the gray whale world — before traveling south to the warmer temperatures for mating season.

The most common is the California Gray Whale, which migrates between the feeding grounds of the Gulf of Alaska and the birthing / mating grounds of Baja California.

By orienting within these two extremes, the salmon can find the feeding grounds of their ancestors, the team reports today in Current Biology.

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When they're not prowling the grounds, these corporate fat cats spend their days lounging at one of the park's five permanent feeding stations.

Some feared they were being watched; a car break - in, a strange woman found lurking in a backyard late at night and even a snake spotted on the grounds of the DNC all fed an undercurrent of fear.

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But, Pautzke thought, why not raise the fish in ponds until they actually felt the urge to go to salt water, use the streams merely as chutes to send them out to the ocean's rich feeding grounds, wait two years, and — presto — get back hundreds, thousands, even millions of big, healthy trout?

While much of the used grounds go to landfills, some of them are applied as fertilizer, used as a biodiesel source or mixed into animal feed.

Thousands of ponds are scattered like mirrors across Alaska's coastal plain, providing nesting and feeding grounds for waterfowl.

But when Nick Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC modelled Pacific feeding grounds during peak glaciation, he found that very little of the north Pacific was shallow enough for feeding: sea levels were up to 120 metres lower than today and the Bering Sea was a land bridge.

Though it looks chaotic at first glance, this migration map, which shows the electronic tracks of 19 shearwaters created by UC Santa Cruz biologist Scott Shaffer in 2005, color - codes the various legs of their trek: light - blue lines track the birds during breeding season, yellow lines represent the northward journey, and orange lines show the winter feeding grounds and southward return.

Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.

Loggerhead sea turtles, which feed thousands of miles from their hatching grounds, seem to return to breed with their genetic relatives at sites very close to their births.

Every year, the nomadic grays take two to three months to swim from the lagoons of Baja California, where they breed and nurse their young, to the feeding grounds off the coast of Alaska.

They used sequences of maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA and «microsatellite genotypes,» or DNA profiles, to both describe the genetic differences and outline migratory connections between both breeding and feeding grounds.

The comeback in one part of the Pacific in nearly complete, a study finds — raising questions about a plan to alter shipping lanes to avoid feeding grounds

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

The occasional genetic interchange between populations also seemed to correlate with feeding grounds with high densities of krill, places where whales from different populations are likely to move vast distances and come into contact with other populations.

After migrating hundreds of miles from their winter feeding grounds, they marched off the ice in the austral spring and — even though their nesting territories were concealed under snow — headed to the very colonies where many were hatched or had raised chicks before.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

Devoid of feeding grounds and hiding places for fish of any size, the trench seems empty.

Researchers determined the whales» current population numbers by comparing photographic shots of humpbacks in their North Pacific feeding grounds (around the Pacific Rim from California to Kamchatka) to images taken of the whales in their southern, tropical breeding areas — some as far as 3000 miles away.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

Dumped into huge stockpiles, tires harbor vermin, contribute to the spread of disease by creating mosquito breeding grounds, and feed huge fires: In August 1998, a grass fire ignited 7 million tires near the town of Tracy in California's San Joaquin Valley, sending a plume of soot and noxious gas thousands of feet into the air.

When their feeding grounds coincide with shipping lanes — traffic in and out of the Cape Canal toward Boston passes through here — a strike rate of one a year is hardly unlikely.

In a place like that, it makes sense to move around in search of new feeding grounds, to make use of any and all sperm that comes your way, and to keep your young close until they're ready to take care of themselves.

Their favorite food is a variety of copepod called Calanus finmarchicus, which whales follow to all their known feeding grounds: Cape Cod, lower Bay of Fundy, Great South Channel, and Jeffreys Ledge.

Any glimpse of whale, in calving or feeding grounds or anywhere, is photographed and given a catalog number.

These findings suggest that historical milking grounds represent an alternative stable state, maintained by a number of processes, including increased nutrient cycling rates, soil biotic and abiotic processes, and selective feeding on shrubs by lemmings and voles, which prevent the surrounding vegetation from invading in the historical milking grounds.

The plankton, in turn, attracts a vast array of marine life, providing feeding as well as spawning grounds for myriad pelagic species, including some that have migrated across wide oceanic areas.

Can Patchi's father get them to the feeding grounds safely or will the largest of predators, the Gorgosaurus, stop them in their tracks?

In addition to confirming appointments, scheduling meetings and mapping out exhibitors, the app includes links to the Show's essential info — a list of Show hours, details on ground transportation, maps of the Show grounds and halls, a list of special events with times and locations, a schedule of daily celebrity appearances and feeds from the official SEMA Show social media accounts.

The people at Morningstar suspended their awards gala for 2016 on the grounds that they give many of the prizes to companies and funds based on subjective data, like «juried» selections.To their credit, Morningstar did not want to «feed the beast» of mutual fund marketing departments any longer.

Our wonderful crew, consisting of Jose Cabrera, JJ Cisneros, Guillermo Gamez, Sergio Lopez - Arreola, Devin Roberts, and Oscar Quezada, work hard to keep our stalls, barns and grounds clean and neat and our horses well fed.

Keeper - Aide, Sacramento Zoo, CA (Feb 03 — May 03) Husbandry of zoo animals, including cleaning, feeding, and grounds maintenance, and enrichment.

In part four of this saga, Kevin showed the monks how to properly feed the handful of cats that still remain on the temple grounds.

«A lot of times, people think that animals are in need when they're not,» Shipman said, as he hand - fed a baby hummingbird who had been picked up on the grounds of a school earlier that day.

While we list coffee on the «ASPCA's People Foods to Avoid Feeding Your Pet,» citing its toxicity, it's safe to use grounds from decaffeinated coffee or caffeinated grounds that have been brewed through a filter, resulting in most of the harmful caffeine being removed.

Everyone gets plenty of love and attention from Sher, doting sanctuary Vice President Harriette Sackler and the sanctuary's invaluable army of over 55 devoted volunteers, who help with daily tasks including feeding and administering medications; bathing and grooming; cleaning and laundering; sanctuary and grounds maintenance, and providing exercise and playtime.

Duties include preparing diets, feeding animals in assigned area, cleaning exhibits, minor repairs in exhibits, grounds maintenance in and around exhibits, supplying enrichment to assigned animals, operant conditioning, interaction with visitors, assist with animal programs for education classes, assist with set - up and work during special events, and assist with general daily running of the facility.

Ucluelet has the largest amount of feeding grounds for salmon and halibut of any area north and south.

Ucluelet boasts the largest area of feeding grounds for salmon and halibut from BC to Alaska.

Humpback whales migrate from their warm, winter breeding grounds off the coast of Central America to feed in the nutrient - rich waters of the Monterey Bay throughout the spring, summer and fall.

Each year between December and April, thousands of gray, humpback and other whales migrate from their Arctic feeding grounds to Mexico's Baja Peninsula's warm waters to mate and give birth.