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From the outset of Alethea Arnaquq - Baril's eye - opening documentary Angry Inuk, it is clear that this is going to be a different take on seal hunting than the one that has dominated the mainstream conversation over the past four decades.

Early one morning, on a seal hunt with their friend James, a tussle turns violent, and James is killed.

Not exact matches

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But experts insist that while the great white's hunting habits do earn it the title of a seal serial killer, attacks on humans are rare.

Young Antarctic fur seals spend a lot of time on their own when mom is out hunting.

The nomadic Inuit, by contrast, hunted seal native to the fjords, and rarely embarked on open - ocean hunts or journeys.

At a hamlet on the southern end of Ellesmere called Grise Fiord, whose Inuit name means «the place that never thaws out,» the Inuit have watched the sea ice that supports their traditional seal, polar bear and whale hunting decrease every year.

Learning from Inuit hunters that killer whales use specific methods to hunt bowheads, beluga, narwhal and seals, Ferguson discovered at least two different killer whale groups based on prey preferences.

If you hunt on the ice for seals, you look for what's called «land - fast ice.»

The ethereal glow produced by animals deep in the ocean could be key for southern elephant seals on the hunt

Global warming has caused big problems for polar bears, which depend on sea ice for access to the ocean so they can hunt seals and other prey.

«If the strict fish - eaters stick to their diet, and the groups hunting fish and seals become specialized on mammals, in time, they'll have fewer encounters with each other, and that could lead to speciation.»

The bears depend on hunting seals on the surface of the sea ice over the continental shelf, most successfully from April to July.

Scientists have decades of data documenting the bears, and Lentfer says that the bears» weights have been dropping over the past 25 years, indicating that they're having trouble hunting seals on sea ice.

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

Lone Survivor is based on the best - selling memoir by Marcus Luttrell (Played in the film by Mark Wahlberg, 2 Guns) about his ordeal in 2005 as a Navy SEAL who must fight for survival with three of his fellow frogmen in the mountains of Afghanistan when their mission, dubbed Operation Red Wings, is compromised, resulting in the Taliban in the area hunting them down.

It's most compelling, and often frustrating, as a portrait of a rural Inuit population that relies on sustainable seal hunting for food, community and economic survival.

We confront the largest national and international problems facing animals, which local shelters don't have the reach or the resources to take on, such as animal fighting, puppy mills, horse slaughter and soring, seal killing and other forms of commercial slaughter of marine mammals, captive hunting and the wildlife trade, and inhumane slaughter and factory farming.

Videotape observations collected by seal hunt observers indicate that between 7 % and 30 % (Daoust et al and IFAW, respectively) of attempts to kill seals by shooting and clubbing were not successful in achieving unconsciousness on the first attempt.

He is particularly keen on public scholarship that brings academic insights to the wider public without unnecessary jargon or impenetrable theories.Some of the topics he has addressed includes wolf recovery, outdoor cats and biodiversity, barred and northern spotted owls, the Canadian seal hunt, cosmopolitanism, the Earth Charter, precaution, rewilding, sustainability science, and urban ecology.

Also making a comeback, after years of hunting, are the thousands of pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) that breed, pup, and haul out on the island's 27 miles of isolated coastline.

What makes our surf trip exciting is the anticipation on our hunt for waves of discovering an incredible surf spot behind every turn or hill; What makes our surf trip unique is the rare opportunity of finding new locations and unsurfed coastlines; And what makes our surf trip unforgettable is your once - in - a-lifetime chance to surf unchartered waves, where the only local surfers are the friendly seals and the only other footprints in the sand, or snow, are yours and those of your fellow adventurers.

Baby seals are occasionally left on the beach by their mothers while they hunt for food.

Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) have hunted elephant seals near Campbell Island, while bite marks from a southern sleeper shark (Somniosus antarcticus) have been found on surviving elephant seals in the Macquarie Islands.

Here, some 17,000 elephant seals, once hunted to near extinction, haul up on the rocky sands to breed, have their young, molt, and rest.

Also, as warming temperatures limit seal hunting opportunities on the ice, adult male polar bears will likely fare the best, securing the best sites from smaller bears (females, subadults).

Some evidence of this may be the well - known behavioral (as well as genetic) similarities between the two species — such as grizzlies able to hunt seals on the ice and polar bears able to hunt and capture caribou on land.

[20] For the polar bears that currently den on multi-year ice, increased ice mobility may result in longer distances for mothers and young cubs to walk when they return to seal - hunting areas in the spring.

Earlier work by Andy Derocher, Ian Stirling and others had documented the clear reduction in sea ice in Hudson Bay and the subsequent reduction in the period available for hunting seals, and the impacts on the population.

Polar bears are the largest land carnivores in the world, but they are also marine mammals, meaning they spend the majority of their time on Artic sea ice hunting for ice - dependent ringed and bearded seals to snack on.

Polar bears are dependent on sea ice as a platform for hunting seals, and as a pathway to coastal areas.

Some aspects of Norse farming methodology were not well suited to Greenland conditions, and there was necessarily a swing to more reliance on wildlife hunting and especially the harvesting of seals.

Polar bears return to Churchill, the polar bear capital of the world, to hunt for seals on the icepack every year at this time and remain on the icepack feeding on seals until the spring thaw.

As Arctic sea ice melts earlier and freezes later each year, polar bears have a limited amount of time to hunt their historically preferred prey — ringed seal pups — and must spend more time on land.

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Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) rely on sea ice for roaming, breeding, and as a platform from which to hunt seals.

The loss of sea ice can only have knock - on effects for Arctic creatures, such as polar bears, which cross onto the sea ice to hunt for their favoured prey, seals.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

Snow depth over sea ice in spring affects the hunting success of polar bears on ringed seal (Phoca hispida) pups, but the relationship is more complicated than you might think and there is less data on this phenomenon than you would believe.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see below)?

«That's 30 days less out on the sea ice when they're actively hunting seals,» Obbard said.

Between 1984 and 2009 the weight of female bears in Ontario fell by over 10 % while climate change meant they had 30 fewer days a year to hunt seal on ice

Since 1980, the ice season in Hudson Bay has fallen at a rate of about one day a year, forcing polar bears to spent more time on dry land rather than hunting seals — their main source of food — on sea ice.

Unable to hunt seals on the melting ice, hungry polar bears have been coming into villages to feed off scraps and bones during the annual whale hunt.

Non-pregnant bears may have to fast on land or offshore on the remaining multiyear ice through progressively longer periods of open water while they await freeze - up and a return to hunting seals.

Sea ice conditions determine when sealers begin hunting in areas that include the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and the much larger hunt on the Front off northern Newfoundland.

Across the Arctic, there has been only a marginal decline in total sea ice extent (Fig. 6) between March and June, the critical spring feeding period when polar bears require the ice as a hunting platform for gorging on young, fat seals.

According to the General Court, existence of disparities between national regulations on seal products discourages consumers from buying other products that do not involve seal hunting, but which might not be easily distinguishable from seal products (such as Omega 3 capsules) or products that contain seal products without being clearly recognisable as such (para. 39 and 47).

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.