Sentences with phrase «marine mammal species»

The overall combined effects of environmental perturbations caused by climate change could ultimately result in the displacement of some populations from their current geographical ranges and ultimately in the extinction of some marine mammal species (Kovacs et al. 2010).

The number is higher for marine mammals — nearly one in four — but even this could be an underestimate because we don't know enough about 44 percent of European marine mammal species.

'' «Another reason sea lions appear to be the more common target of «intentional, negative human interaction,» is that sea lions will more often try to come ashore when gravely injured, while other marine mammal species will die or suffer at sea,» added Dr. Van Bonn.

In the Santa Barbara Channel, you can find over 30 marine mammal species including whales, dolphins, and elephant seals, as well as marine life ranging from tiny sea stars and anemones to blue whales (the largest animals in the world).

«Scientists have documented mass strandings; mortal injuries, including lesions and hemorrhaging in vital organs; and behavior changes in numerous marine mammal species following naval sonar training exercises around the world,» the complaint stated.

Because of our incredible diverse ecosystem off the northeastern coast of Vancouver Island, BC we usually see some all of the resident marine mammal species including Orcas, humpback whales, Minke whales, porpoises, dolphins, sea lions, the occasional black bear on the beach and, of course, the birds.

It provides breeding and feeding grounds for at least twenty - five endangered or threatened species; thirty - six marine mammal species, including blue, gray, and humpback whales, harbor seals, elephant seals, Pacific white - sided dolphins, and one of the southernmost U.S. populations of threatened Steller sea lions; over a quarter - million breeding seabirds; and one of the most significant white shark populations on the planet.

As a matter of fact, rates of congenital deformities in northern elephant seals are higher than in any other marine mammal species we see at the hospital, according to Dr. Bill Van Bonn, Director of Veterinary Science at The Marine Mammal Center.

What many people may not know is that there is a related virus, phocine distemper, that can be deadly to seals and that poses a significant threat to marine mammal species around the world, and potentially to the highly endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

The successful applicant must be well - versed in fundamental and applied clinical veterinary medicine in marine mammal species, and possess an in - depth knowledge of current conservation strategies as they relate to the Hawaiian Monk Seal.

Over 160 tags have been deployed on individuals of nine different species and 75 complete experimental BRS sequences have been conducted on individuals from seven different federally protected marine mammal species (Cuvier's beaked whale, Baird's beaked whale, sperm whale, Risso's dolphin, blue whale, fin whale, and humpback whale).

Many of the most at - risk species (including some turtle, shark and marine mammal species) are not fully protected, even in parks as big as the PRIMNM.

Illustration of an Atlantic White - sided Dolphin and a Long - finned Pilot Whale, two marine mammal species that strand in Cape Cod.

«Zooplankton represent a critical energy source in the world's oceans and a vital food for many fish and marine mammal species.

Such sonar exercises have been associated with several unusual strandings of other marine mammal species (typically beaked whales) in the past.

Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program, told Live Science that, for many marine mammal species, a thick layer of fat called blubber is «first and foremost» in their list of defenses against the cold.

«The AIS can become a vital tool in helping to protect whale and other marine mammal species, particularly in locations such as the Arctic where shipping is potentially on the increase,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Director of WCS's Ocean Giants Program.

A recognized leader in animal care and conservation, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium announced today that it has welcomed a seven - week - old orphaned southern sea otter pup (Enhydra lutris nereis) to the aquarium as part of a collaborative partnership with Monterey Bay Aquarium — a leader in the conservation and rescue of the threatened marine mammal species.

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And after days of scrutiny, the marine mammal and animal health teams determined that the two - week - old Pacific white - sided dolphin is male, making him one of just three males of this species in North American aquariums and zoos.

He oversees conservation and recovery programs for endangered and threatened marine mammal and sea turtle species in New England and the...

Center for Coastal Studies image taken under NOAA permit 633-1763 under the authority of the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act

The lands that were lost were also breeding grounds for marine mammals, brown pelicans, turtles, and fish, as well as migratory species such as redhead ducks.Overall, about 20 % of the local marshes were permanently overrun by water as a result of the storm.

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the Permian extinction wiped out virtually all marine species and most life on land, clearing the path for the dinosaurs and setting back the rise of mammals by 50 million years.

Laidre's team looked at what is known about marine mammal populations that play a key role in Arctic ecosystems and human communities, focusing on polar bears, beluga whales, narwhals, bowhead whales, walrus, and six different seal species.

A first - ever effort to gauge the ecological status of all 11 species of marine mammals living in the Arctic reveals a mixed picture — and a lot of missing information.

So perhaps it should come as no surprise that the marine mammals, «with their complex social behavior, are capable of engaging in equally as sophisticated mixed - species interactions,» he adds.

When my daughter was young, I tried explaining evolution to her by using polar bears as an example of a «transitional species» between land mammals and marine mammals, but that was wrong.

Coalition lawyers argued that the Navy's testing was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.

The analysis identifies habitat loss and hunting as the biggest reasons behind the decline of land mammals; marine species face additional threats, including pollution and accidental death in fishing nets.

«Some species, such as marine mammals, live in places where humans can't easily follow them.

This will «cause economic difficulties, losses in biodiversity and conservation problems for higher species in the ecosystems, including marine mammals».

The researchers» potential next steps include refining the manatee probe and developing similar probes for the dugong, a related species, or for other marine mammals.

More than 180 species of animals have been documented to ingest plastic debris, including birds, fish, turtles and marine mammals, according to the report.

This area is home to approximately 40 percent of the world's reef wildlife population, including more than 75 percent of coral species and some 3,000 individual species of fish, as well as sea turtles, mollusks, crustaceans, and marine mammals.

The few existing international marine protection zones are either part of the Antarctic Treaty System, or are related to particular species such as marine mammals or to specific risks, like dumping.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

In a surprising and innovative move, the delegates also agreed that scientific findings from animal behavior research — including the concept that some cetacean species have cultures — should be considered in conservation decisions and strategies for these marine mammals.

Marine mammals, sharks and rays, polar bears, and some birds are among the 31 species that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.Nspecies that will get greater protection under a deal reached earlier this week by more than 100 countries at a meeting of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.NSpecies of Wild Animals (CMS), a U.N. body.

In the subsequent Marine Mammal Science paper just out, the catches were among the key pieces of information used to model the size of the California blue whale population over time — a model previously used by other groups to estimate populations of hundreds of fish and various other whale species.

«Eavesdropping on Bering Strait marine mammals: Researchers are eavesdropping on marine mammals within the Bering Strait via «passive acoustic monitoring» to observe changes in the ecology of the Pacific Arctic by documenting the use of this region by species previously excluded by sea ice.»

Overall, the saga of M. hotaula shows «that there are probably even more species of beaked whales that we don't know about,» says Phil Clapham, a marine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washimarine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, WashiMarine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington.

«It was a surprise, because the genetic sequences from the meat didn't match any of the known species,» says Scott Baker, a cetacean geneticist now at Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, and one of the authors of the study.

The precarious state of those mammals is underscored in a multinational study led by a University of Washington scientist, published this week in Conservation Biology, assessing the status of all circumpolar species and subpopulations of Arctic marine mammals, including seals, whales and polar bears.

The test of how well these instruments can detect different species of marine mammals, and over what distances, is just the first step towards using acoustic data collected by gliders and floats to estimate marine mammal density and abundance.

Scientists are using a variety of buoys and autonomous underwater vehicles to record and archive sounds from marine mammals and fish species in the western North Atlantic through a new listening network known as the U.S. Northeast Passive Acoustic Sensing Network (NEPAN).

«The results are disturbing because they suggest narwhals aren't physiologically equipped to sustain, in good health, repeated exposure to stressful events,» says Randall Reeves, a marine mammal expert in Hudson, Canada, who chairs the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Cetacean Specialist Group.

Some killer whale observers have proposed that the orcas in the Northeast Atlantic also likely comprise two species, because some pods appear to be fish specialists, while others prefer marine mammals.

Field research on marine mammals is one of the most challenging of biological studies, primarily because scientists are often unable to follow ocean - going species such as whales across their full range; the humpback whale in particular undertakes some of the longest migratory movements of any mammal.