Sentences with phrase «on sea mammals»
People on the coast itself depended upon the sea for their food supply, some subsisting mainly on shellfish, some on sea mammals, others on fish, and still others on a mixture of all three.
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Native groups have lived in the extreme north since the last ice age by praying primarily on sea mammals and building protection from the elements by adapting to the local conditions.
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«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.
Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.
Our position relied on the evaluation of our own scientists and the expertise of other organizations in assessing any potential threats from this project to the seafloor, fisheries, marine mammals, and other sea life.
The educational tour included a special classroom lesson on marine mammals, a sea lion aquatheater show, and a look at the coral reef, freshwater fish, sea otters, penguins, sharks, and rays.
The shape of the creature's 36 - centimeter (1.2 - foot) snout, which points straight forward rather than slightly downward like today's river dolphins, suggests the mammal spent most of its time at sea and likely fed on fish, the scientists say.
To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.
Such methods have been used for more than a decade, but mainly on birds or sea mammals.
She now works in extreme environments such as the frigid Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Siberia, gauging the effect of underwater ambient noise on marine mammals.
According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.
Fortunately Oregon State's Marine Mammal Institute donated time on a boat that was going to the Sea of Cortez for a different project.
Over two summers, the researchers treated herds of mule deer and white - tailed deer on a Canadian farm to modified recording of the cries of a wide variety of infant mammals — elands, marmots, bats, fur seals, sea lions, domestic cats, dogs and humans.
Not all orcas are slaughtering sea mammals — at least not on North America's West Coast, where killer whales have been studied closely by scientists.
Killer whales have such a voracious appetite that sea mammals are not safe — even on land.
Her team demonstrated the potentially deadly role of an algal toxin in sea lions, shed light on marine mammal cancers and infectious diseases, and has convinced many that marine mammal health is a good indicator of the health of our oceans.
«Not only mammals — the sea off Cuba was so thick with 1,000 - pound green turtles that his boats practically ran aground on them.»
Nicklen was not the only mammal lying in wait on the edge of the Antarctic Ross Sea to greet these emperor penguins.
Sea otters must eat about 25 % of their body weight daily to maintain their body temperature since unlike other marine mammals they rely solely on their fur rather than an extra layer of blubber to stay warm — it's like a 120 - pound human eating 30 pounds of food per day.
Then he worked for a year perfecting the test on wild sea lions being treated at the Marine Mammal Center for red tide exposure or other problems.
«When we think of climate change having an impact on a mammal species, what comes to mind most immediately is an Arctic animal like the polar bear, which depends on sea ice to survive,» Helgen said.
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.
«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.»
«NASA backed us on research related to the biodiversity and ecology of Arctic marine mammals, as well as the development of metrics for the loss of sea ice, their habitat.»
Like modern - day marine mammals, which also returned to the sea from life on land, they were air - breathers.
The tubby mammals aren't sneaking Marlboros while on shore, but merely protecting their organs from the consequences of deep - sea diving, according to a study published online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.
With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.
They feed on the bottom of the food chain — on single - celled plankton, which larger fish can not eat — and then they become prey for all sorts of upper - level predators like tuna, sea bass and halibut as well as seabirds and marine mammals.
The report, sponsored by 10 organizations ranging from the American Petroleum Institute to the Marine Mammal Commission, focused primarily on the United States» territorial waters north of the Bering Strait, including the Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
If you're an oceanographer who studies marine mammals, perhaps you'd go to sea on a ship with a good pair of binoculars and hunt for whales.
Brandon Southall, SEA Inc. and University of California Santa Cruz, will be presenting «Marine Mammal Responses to Simulated Military Sonar: Southern California Behavioral Response Study» on Tuesday, March 12 at noon (4 pm GMT) at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
He was elected as a Pew Fellow in marine conservation for his work in the Patagonian Sea, where he focuses on the biology of marine mammals at Peninsula Valdes, in Argentina.
SeaWorld will increase its focus on rescue operations — so that the thousands of stranded marine mammals like dolphins and sea lions that can not be released back to the wild will have a place to go.
Cats are known to prey on small mammals, birds, and even sea - turtle hatchlings, frogs and toads, snakes, lizards, and insects.
At Pier 39, there are souvenirs shops, restaurants, a video arcade, street performances, an explanatory center for the Marine Mammal Center, the Aquarium of the Bay, virtual 3D rides, and views of California sea lions towed out on docks on Pier 39's marina.
Both harbour seals and Steller sea lions haul out on the many rocky islets, always weary of an ambush from transient (marine mammal - eating) killer whales.
A baby sea lion found on a Washington beach stranded, emaciated and suffering from various wounds is being nursed back to health at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito after getting a lift on a Coast Guard long - range aircraft.
Yankee Doodle, a southern sea otter, hits the surf after he's released back to the ocean by volunteers from the Marine Mammal Center at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, Calif. on Tuesday Oct. 24, 2017.
Over the coming months, as seals and sea lions haul out on beaches and give birth to pups up and down the California coast, the Marine Mammal Center is looking for volunteers to care for a likely onslaught of young animals that need help.
On Tuesday we told you the story of Hoppie the sea lion pup's rescue and rehabilitation, but the truth is the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito is on the brink of having more wayward mammals in need than ever beforOn Tuesday we told you the story of Hoppie the sea lion pup's rescue and rehabilitation, but the truth is the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito is on the brink of having more wayward mammals in need than ever beforon the brink of having more wayward mammals in need than ever before.
California sea lions infected with Leptospirosis are appearing on Oregon beaches, the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network reports.
In September 2014, Melin and her team, along with veterinary staff from The Marine Mammal Center, visited the sea lion rookeries on the Channel Islands, a primary breeding area, to assess the pups born three months prior.
July 21, 2017 MEDIA ADVISORY: Entangled California sea lion evades marine mammal rescuers for the third time in Bodega Bay on Thursday
To better understand what's going on with these animals, we work closely with researchers from NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory to study the California sea lion population as a whole.
A distressed sea lion found near Hooper Beach on Monday is in good hands after it was rescued by officials from the Marine Mammal Center in Moss Landing.
She chaired the Working Group on Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Events for six years, served on U.S. recovery teams for the Hawaiian monk seal and southern sea otter, and currently is a member of the international recovery team for the vaquita (CIRVA).
Reports that large sea mammals were largely unaffected by the spill were flatly contradicted by a story in Life magazine, published on June 9, 1969.
Northern elephant seals, California sea lions, sea otters, and other marine mammals come ashore to rest, mate, and give birth in the sand dunes or on the beaches and offshore islands.
The Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network responds to reports of mammals on the beach and will check the animal and post signs to keep beach - goers clear until the creature returns to the sea.
Mark has been living in the San Juan Islands for three decades, while conducting research on birds and marine mammals, teaching natural history classes, and guiding sea kayak tours.