Sentences with phrase «sea mammal life»

In a rare assessment of a training exercise, researchers found in 2010 that fish and sea mammals living near the USS Oriskany — an aircraft carrier sunk for training in 2006 — had raised levels of PCBs.

Not exact matches

some things match up — like mammals after other land animals, and sea life before other living creatures.

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.

«Among marine mammals, when a slow - swimming animal is living close to the sea floor, generally the bone is much more compact, and this is something we want to test with these early mysticetes.»

The islands are occupied mainly by plants, reptiles, and birds, with only sea lions and a few thousand human residents — currently living in the 3 percent of the region that isn't protected national parkland — to represent the mammals.

Puzzled by the appearance of the disease in a sea mammal, a team led by wildlife veterinarian Melissa Miller of the University of California, Davis, tested blood samples collected from 223 live and dead otters.

Purple sea urchins also provide food for shorebirds and some mammals living along the coast.

And the other thing that probably would have been there is seabirds and sea mammals because they've been around a really long time and they had to live somewhere.

For the past decade, Markus Horning of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University has led a project to deploy specially designed «life history transmitters» into the abdomens of juvenile Steller sea lions.

Background Mammals that have evolved to live in cold waters, such as whales, seals, sea lions and polar bears, commonly have a layer of blubber.

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.

Like modern - day marine mammals, which also returned to the sea from life on land, they were air - breathers.

Some groups of Chukchi people live settled lives in coastal villages, where they hunt sea mammals.

Heartworm disease affects dogs, cats and ferrets, but heartworms also live in other mammal species, including wolves, coyotes, foxes, sea lions and — in rare instances — humans.

«Heartworm disease is a serious and potentially fatal condition caused by parasitic worms living in the arteries of the lungs and occasionally in the right side of the heart of dogs, cats and other species of mammals, including wolves, foxes, ferrets, sea lions and (in rare instances) humans.

Kathy spent five years training marine mammals at Sea Life Park in Hawaii, and started her first dog obedience company, Clever Canines, in 1996.

Their Sea Lion Discovery program features live interaction (feeding and petting) with these playful marine mammals, as naturalists explain more about their diet and habitat.

Featured Creatures: Mammals Birds Fish & Sea Life, Chipmunks, Deer or Elk, Minks, Otters, Raccoon, Squirrels, Crows or Ravens, Doves or Pigeons, Ducks, Eagles, Geese, Gulls, Hawks, Herons, Ospreys, Owls, Woodpeckers, Wrens, Clams, Crabs, Mussels, Sea Birds, Seals, Shellfish, Starfish, Whales, Bullhead, Perch, and Salmon.

Artists Cast a Net for Safer Oceans - Bay Nature Magazine This weekend, The Marine Mammal Center in Marin launches a new art exhibit and website aimed at a problem most of us barely know exists: Ghost nets that drift in the oceans snagging sea life and wreaking havoc, maybe for years.

The first veterinarian to become a TED Fellow is a Sausalito resident who works at the Marine Mammal Center, where she has helped others from around the world better understand caring for sea life.

Travel to the northern reaches of Baffin Island to experience the floe edge — also known as the «line of life» — where the sea ice opens up, and marine mammals and other wildlife congregate.

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.

Museum Lucy the Margate Elephant Caesars Atlantic City Hotel and Casino Marine Mammal Stranding Center and Sea Life Museum

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.

These pristine waters are home to many marine mammals including: Orca or killer whales, humpback whales, harbour seals, Dall's porpoise, pacific white - sided dolphins, steller sea lions, river otters and a large variety of invertebrate life, such as sea cucumbers, anemones and sea stars.

We just know that once you have spent the day with us at Garrafón Reef Park and met our beloved sea mammals, you will want to come back and live the day all over again!

* Whale School tours are aimed at increasing interest, connection and positive action for marine mammals as ambassadors for our life - sustaining seas.

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).

The California Marine Mammal Stranding Network, a network of independent groups overseen by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, keeps track of stranding events for both live and dead animals, including seals and sea lions, across California.

However, marine mammals have unique adaptations to life at sea that present challenges which require special medical care.

For the next hour and a half your life will take on that of a Marine Mammal, joining the Harbour Seals, Sea stars, algaes and Shorebirds in this incredibly rich and diverse habitat.

We pride ourselves in sharing visitors to Maui (and locals too) of all ages and ability levels to a different side of Maui; stunning coastlines, pristine tropical waters teeming with sea - life, marine mammals and colorful coral reefs in an up close and personal, environmentally friendly, small group setting.

And when they answered that these massive mammals living in the sea blow water upwards, the sailors were startled that the oars fell from their hands.

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.

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 regionsea 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 regionsea 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 regionsea 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 regionsea 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 regionSea region.45

does the 15ppm consider CO2 contributed from deforestation (which as this becomes more extensive against the growing population, the atmosphere breaks well beyond saturation point as trees can not convert CO2 fast enough to combat the production), the burning of peat, the likely disturbances and resulting CO2 emitted from deep sea drilling (i.e. decomposed life forms from the ocean bed reaching the atmosphere) the CO2 deposits from extensive farming, the population of all mammals exhaling CO2, chemical productions with CO2 bi-products and all other man related processes that give off CO2?

Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are listed as a marine mammal, because they spend most of their lives on the (frozen) ocean — and are dependent on sea ice for their specialised feeding.

Marine mammals living in the polar regions rely on sea ice, and continuing reductions in the amount of ice will harm populations of seals, walruses, and polar bears.

Their teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.