Sentences with phrase «many harbor seals»

«The Red Triangle includes roughly 200 miles of coastline.But it's not the beachgoers and surfers that attract great whites to these waters.It's the rich population of other mammals like elephant seals, harbor seals, sea lions, and sea otters.Great whites prefer to prey on these animals instead of humans.

Shure, a photographer / videographer who often shoots under water, was diving off Rockport at a depth of about 20 feet when the harbor seal approached.

Alex Shure of Melrose was named 2016 Grand Prize Winner in Mass Audubon's annual statewide photo contest, Picture This: Your Great Outdoors, for his photograph of a harbor seal placidly regarding him beneath the waters of Massachusetts Bay.

Today, the nine - acre Chelsea Cove includes a skate park, geese - filled lawn and a carousel featuring a harbor seal, Atlantic sturgeon and white unicorn.

CHELSEA — A carousel featuring a harbor seal with black spots, a green - scaled Atlantic sturgeon and a white unicorn covered in pastel butterflies was unveiled Monday as part of a $ 50 - million facelift to the Hudson River Park at Piers 62 and 63.

SEAL MEAL A harbor seal digs its claws into a salmon.

A look at bone structure in a fur seal, which has stiff flippers, and a harbor seal, which has bendable paws, reveals an anatomical basis for their different feeding styles.

Considering the consumption of just adult chinook salmon in 2015, the researchers estimated that harbor seals consumed 1,000 adult chinook salmon, while California sea lions consumed 46,000, and Steller sea lions consumed 47,000.

The researchers estimate that from 1975 to 2015, the yearly biomass of chinook salmon consumed by pinnipeds (sea lions and harbor seals) and killer whales increased from 6,100 to 15,200 metric tons, and from five to 31.5 million individual salmon.

Tucked into the scenic Marin County Headlands, the Marine Mammal Center treats Pacific harbor seals, northern elephant seals and other pinnipeds, giving visitors an intimate view of wildlife rescue.

Local fishermen believe there are probably too many harbor seals in Puget Sound.

In the case of the slaughtered harbor seals of Hood Canal, transient killer whales may have done a good deed for the environment.

He saw harbor seals quivering on the canal's banks during the 2003 winter feeding frenzy.

And in a very visible way, the harbor seals were showing how human interference in marine ecosystems could have unintended consequences.

When the supply of sea lions and harbor seals ran low, orcas apparently turned to the next ready meal — sea otters.

• In the Northern Pacific and the southern Bering Sea, killer whales have been linked to collapsing populations of fur seals and harbor seals.

They «speak» dialects — in both cases a high - pitched screech — that are so distinct from each other that even harbor seals seem to know the difference.

The harbor seals in Hood Canal, a 60 - mile - long fjord to the west of Puget Sound, seemed anxious.

Hopefully, this internship may turn out to be a program for future science assistants at NSF like the fieldwork I'm currently participating in with Dr. Jim Harvey and his studies on harbor seals.

Over several weeks, about half the harbor seal population in the canal — 700 salmon - fattened mammals — had become lunch.

Groups of three or four transients typically go after a young harbor seal, whacking it senseless with their tails, then sharing it.

Scientists say the orcas probably preferred harbor seals and sea lions because of the high volume of their fat and the relative ease of killing them.

When those populations thinned out, the theory goes, they moved on to smaller prey, such as harbor seals and sea otters.

The best estimates are: 250,000 sea birds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 orcas, and billions of salmon and herring eggs.

In the flurry of new research on the rapid decline of Steller sea lions, harbor seals, and northern fur seals, I thought one of the most likely causes was a dramatic climate shift in the region they inhabit.

Now a group has found evidence that harbor seals learn to tell which killer whales are dangerous by eavesdropping on their conversations.

Blindfold a harbor seal, clap headphones on its ears, and the keen hunter will still be able to track a distant fish, using its whiskers to detect the ripples made by its prey.

The researchers tested the observation by playing recorded calls of both groups at popular harbor seal hangouts in British Columbia to see how the seals would react.

«Unlike harbor seals, elephant seals and other marine mammals that range over hundreds or even thousand of miles, sea otters stick to their roots.»

The findings may also explain why harbor seal populations are declining in fjords whose glaciers have retreated onto land: Without the acoustic camouflage provided by the bubble - induced din, the seals may have a harder time evading their main predator, the killer whale.

To wit, a group of researchers who stumbled across influenza B virus — which was thought to infect only humans — in a stranded harbor seal.

Southall et al (2000 JASA)-- Masking in three pinnipeds: Underwater, low - frequency critical ratios Behavioral techniques were used to determine underwater masked hearing thresholds for a northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), a harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), and a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).

Although they can reach up to six feet in length and weigh around 180 pounds, when on land and in plain sight harbor seals may not be easy to spot.

Their spotted brown or tan fur allows harbor seals to blend in with sand and rocks.

We had a few beautiful days last week — warm and sunny — and I felt like one of those lazy harbor seals who goes belly up the second the sun appears.

Her seventh graders at the Mare Island Technology Academy, in Vallejo, California, choose a seafaring species — such as the harbor seal, black - footed albatross, or leatherback turtle — and draw a picture of it, using pencil or ink.

Dogs sounding like harbor seals, gremlins, wind - up toys, grumbling strangely while sleeping, or simply being plain ole» weirdos — watch as these silly dogs attempt to communicate who - knows - what to their humans with some appearing a bit frustrated as their person laughs at how cute they are being!

She worked with orphaned harbor seals at the New England Aquarium and then at the Wildlife Clinic at Tufts University's School of Veterinary Medicine before attending veterinary school.

In the zoo and aquarium community, she has trained a wide variety of species, including beluga whales, Pacific white - sided dolphins, Alaskan sea otters, harbor seals, river otters, penguins, primates, large cats, reticulated giraffes, birds of prey, horses, parrots, macaws, tree kangaroos, red pandas, and dogs.

You can kayak Morro Bay in all its moods, sharing it with harbor seals, sea lions and sea otters, as well as literally hundreds of species of birds, including several rare and endangered species.

Unlike sea lions, harbor seals can not rotate their hind flippers underneath them so when they haul out, they scoot across the ground on their bellies.

Over the course of approximately 30 minutes, you'll enjoy an exclusive tour of the seal facility and a special educational presentation on seals, then participate in an exciting harbor seal training session alongside Georgia Aquarium's own animal trainers.

It features three sea lions and a harbor seal that are housed here and were brought in because of their injuries or abandonment.

We saw a sleeping otter, a baby elephant seal, several harbor seals, bird nests, caves, and a mini blowhole.

Wolves have been seen throughout the park; along the coast hunting sea otter and harbors seals, and in Brooks Camp fishing alongside bears.

Along the coast are sea lions, sea otters, harbor seals, porpoise.

The rocky shores of Santa Barbara Island also provide resting and breeding areas for California sea lions, harbor seals and northern elephant seals.

Over the course of approximately 30 minutes, you'll enjoy an exclusive tour of the harbor seal facility and a special educational presentation on seals, then help prepare a seal meal, and finally, participate in an exciting harbor seal training session alongside Georgia Aquarium's own animal trainers.

The seal encounter experience offers exclusive, up close and personal animal encounters with harbor seals while learning more about the Aquarium's rescue, research and conservation initiatives, which includes providing much - needed homes for orphaned and stranded harbor seals!

You will also have a chance to see Humpback Whales, Pacific White - sided dolphins, porpoises, Stellar sea lions, and harbor seals.