Anacapa Island, located only about 11 mi (18 km) from the urbanized coast of Southern California, provides critical habitat for seabirds,
pinnipeds such as California sea lions, and several endemic plants and animals.
The microphones record data at a sample rate of 8kHz, so the group listens up to 4kHz — for scale, the highest note on a normally tuned, standard piano is 4.186 kHz — to include signals produced by large whales like fins, humpbacks, bowheads and killer whales, as well as
pinnipeds such as bearded seals and walrus.
Instead, retaining the claws probably helps northern true seals catch a larger meal than they could with the stiff, slippery fins of other
pinnipeds such as sea lions and fur seals, Hocking and his colleagues report April 18 in Royal Society Open Science.
Not exact matches
This week our one day kayaking trips in the San Juan Islands had great success with finding a variety of
pinnipeds, the «fin - footed» mammals
such as seals and sea lions.