Sentences with phrase «kelp gulls»

Kelp gulls eat the feces of fur seal pups infected with hookworms, sometimes wounding the poor pups in their efforts to obtain a meal, a new study reveals.

But a close second may be the kelp gulls and dolphin gulls on Guafo Island in Chilean Patagonia.

Almost all southern right whale calves off the coast of Argentina's Peninsula Valdez are being fed upon, some fatally, by kelp gulls, which was a rare occurrence four decades ago

Lots of animals want to eat these penguins including sharks, Cape fur seals, killer whales, mongooses, cats, dogs, and kelp gulls, but somehow they manage to survive.

Mother - calf pairs are the primary targets for Kelp Gull attacks and pairs attacked by gulls appear to spend less time nursing, resting, and playing than pairs not under attack.

Kelp Gull harassment — they feed on skin and blubber pecked from the backs of living whales — has also increased in recent years, implicating the wounding as a potential contributing cause of the increased mortality.

Not exact matches

Kelp and dolphin gulls in Patagonia have found a new food source.

They spotted kelp and dolphin gulls picking at the butts of pups, all around two - months old, and eating their feces.

The kelp and dolphin gulls on Guafo Island have a varied diet, Sequel says.

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.

Kelp provides a long three dimensional structure that offers protection and a source of food for many juvenile species of fish (pollock, cod, and flounder), juvenile and adult shellfish (lobsters and crabs), seals and birds (terns and gulls).