Sentences with phrase «sea lions on»

And a shark that has sea lions on its menu (such the great white) is looking at size, shape and movement... not pattern.

Check out the colonies of marine iguanas and sea lions on the beach.

Coming face to face with a great white shark with nothing between you and its giant jaws but steel mesh is an incomparable adrenaline rush, and only in Australia can you do this and swim with wild sea lions on the same trip.

You can take a Grizzly Tour, go Orca Whale Watching, see Bald Eagles, and experience the life of seals and sea lions on an adventure tour of a lifetime.

rookery Returning to our camp, we lunched and then walked across the narrow island to view a herd of sea lions on a beach of surrealistic emptiness.

Observe sea lions on rocks, snorkel, sunbathe, eat a picnic lunch and take a nature hike on this hat - shaped cinder cone island with sandy coves.

The Cape Arago Beach Loop will take you to beaches and state parks where you can take in the breathtaking vantage points and see the famous seals and sea lions on the Oregon Coast.

There is just no better way to experience the natural Pacific Coast beauty and see the famous seals and sea lions on the Oregon Coast.

You no longer need to only picture yourself marveling at the sea lions on the coast or hiking mountainous scenery; let us help you get there.

It's interesting to note, however, that we view sea lions on our SEAL tour.

The five sea lions on board the Kitty Kat were returning to their ocean home!

I saw a huge pod of transient Orcas, numerous Humpback whales, and sea lions on a morning boat trip in late September.

Watch the sea lions on the rocks or maybe you will spot a whale in the distance.

Researchers have already blamed die - offs of migratory birds and sea lions on The Blob; concerns are now that salmon harvests this summer will be depressed as a result of the warm water.

Nature, in effect, has put the sea lions on a low - calorie diet.

Female and juvenile California sea lions on San Miguel Island, California.

It was cool and cloudy on that March day, with frigate birds cruising above us, sea lions on the rocky cliffs, pelicans diving, and unknown fish in the depths below.

An encounter with a curious sea lion on his first dive propelled him toward marine science.

Steller sea lions are the most common sea lion on Vancouver Island and numbers are estimated close to 25,000 in British Columbia.

Chilly was just five months old when he was rescued — unusually young for a sea lion on his own.

Not exact matches

«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.

For example, how is that a sea lion, once they enter the water, that it's heart rate drops, blood vessels constrict, and lungs begins to collapse, whereby blood flows as usual to the heart and brain, but less reaches non-vital organs for swimming, and are now able to draw on oxygen in the muscles and blood?

We watched the sea lion and dolphin show upon arrival and my daughter was fixated on the entire show.

Construction could start as early as July on Lisle's new Sea Lion Aquatic Park.

The coat of arms depicts two animals: the tawny eagle (Aquila rapax, a very large bird that lives in the savannas and deserts [citation needed]; 35 % of Ghana's landmass is desert, 35 % is forest, 30 % is savanna) and the lion (Panthera leo, a big cat); a ceremonial sword, an heraldic castle on an heraldic sea, a cocoa tree and a mine shaft representing the industrial mineral wealth of Ghana, and a five - pointed black star rimmed with gold representing the mineral gold wealth of Ghana and the lodestar of the Ghanaian people.

The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

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.

An Otago - led team of scientists using techniques from the field of dentistry is shedding new light on the evolution of walruses, fur seals and sea lions.

Later in the spring, Widmer tells me, «we would expect the sea lions to be ripping the top and bottom fins off the molas and throwing them around like Frisbees, skipping them on the surface.

Yet on my recent visit to this archipelago where sea lions rule the coast, marine iguanas and crabs congregate on shoreline rocks, birds display oddly colored feet and amusing faces, and the hotel rooms (where they exist) face away from the sea (if there are windows at all), I found that despite the many peculiarities, I initially couldn't pinpoint precisely what makes the Galápagos so special.

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.

The researchers suspect that killer whales have begun to snack on the otters, perhaps because their regular diet of seals and sea lions is declining.

Sharks gather off the coast of California each year and feast on seals and sea lions, but not humans.

Are gangs of orcas feasting on protected seals, sea lions, and otters because we fished their normal food supply out of the oceans?

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.

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.

In late May 2015, a sea lion was found convulsing on a Washington beach, and domoic acid was identified in its feces.

The results refocus the debate on the causes of sea lion pup weight loss from episodic stresses associated with El Niño years to a decadal - long trend of declining forage quality in the waters around the California Channel Island rookeries, the researchers wrote.

However, the close correlation between the fish available and the weight of sea lion pups provides «compelling evidence of a food limitation effect on the weight of dependent pups,» the scientists wrote.

«Could sleeper sharks be preying on protected Steller sea lions?.»

That has forced the female sea lions to prey instead on market squid and rockfish, which contain far less fat and fewer calories.

Their models based on past population shifts predict that an increase of 1 degree C in sea surface temperature off the West Coast will reduce sea lion population growth to zero, while an increase of 2 degrees will lead to a 7 percent decline in the population.

NOAA Fisheries has authorized Oregon, Washington and Idaho to remove individually identifiable sea lions near the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam that have been spotted repeatedly preying on fish protected under the Endangered Species Act.

The study by NOAA Fisheries scientists is the first to analyze changes in fish populations sea lions prey on for clues as to what is causing the record strandings.

So when algal populations explode, say, because of warming water, domoic acid concentrations increase in these animals to a point that they affect the sea lions that feast on them.

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.

It is 11:30 on an August morning in New York City's Central Park Zoo — breakfast time for the sea lions.

When the population of Steller sea lions in one area of Alaska declined dramatically, environmentalists had to threaten the government with a lawsuit to get the species put on the threatened list in 1990.

Yet C. lenticarpus could probably get around well on land using its flippers, just as seals and sea lions do today.

In 1998, sea lion deaths on the California coast also were associated with domoic acid, which entered the food chain via toxigenic diatoms, which were eaten by anchovies that in turn were eaten by the sea lions.