Sentences with phrase «sea mammals from»
This new law, passed by the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, is an important development in the fight to free sea mammals from their tanks where they do not belong.
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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 aquarium's Animal Response Team received a call from its partner the Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC), the only permitted stranded marine mammal response facility in the state, to assist in the rehabilitation of a three - month - old Northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni).
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.
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.
He also believes that it underscores calls from marine biologists to explore how sonar produced by military and commercial ships could garble low - frequency signals sent by sea mammals.
In 1992 Iceland stated that it would not house any captive killer whales — refusing one from Sea World in California that year — because they might carry infections that could harm native fish or marine mammals.
Additional findings from Monell revealed that other exclusively carnivorous mammals, including sea lions and spotted hyenas, also have lost the ability to detect sweet taste.
A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals — as well as seabirds and migrating fish — played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.
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.
Though the marine mammals were captured from the wild in the early years of the program, since the late 1980s, the program has bred its dolphins in - house at its training facility in San Diego and buys young sea lion pups from marine parks, said Mark Xitco, who heads up all the marine mammal training and care for the program.
From Aristotle's claim that a dolphin could jump over the mast of a ship to tales of dolphins coming to the aid of drowning sailors, myths about this sea mammal have long overshadowed fact.
It includes about 175,000 tissue samples from roughly 145,000 unique animals and more than 60,000 samples of DNA representing virtually every known species of marine mammal and sea turtle.
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.
Surfactant from dolphins and other sea mammals could be beneficial under different circumstances, he added.
He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.
SEE ALSO Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Bivalves; Coastal Ocean; Crustaceans; Ecology, Marine; Fisheries, Marine; Food from the Sea; Human Health and the Ocean; Marine Mammals; Oceanography, Biological; Plankton.
«The enzymes in the sea urchins» stomachs are optimized to function at very high pH — which is different from the situation in mammals, where stomach pH is acidic and enzymes work best at low pH.»
MEXICO: According to a new study thousands of individual animals from hundreds of marine species including every kind of sea turtle and around half of marine mammals have encountered plastic, glass, and other garbage in the ocean.
Jolie Harrison works at NOAA managing programs to implement the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea tuMammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act that: 1) allow for incidental marine mammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea tumammal take resulting from activities such as military training or seismic surveys, and 2) allow for research, enhancement, and photography of marine mammals and ESA - listed fish and sea turtles.
Every year, thousands of seabirds and marine mammals ranging from herons, pelicans, and albatross to sea otters, sea turtles, fur seals, dolphins, and whales swallow or become entangled in this debris.
Truth: Throughout the world, primitive peoples sought out and consumed fat from fish and shellfish, water fowl, sea mammals, land birds, insects, reptiles, rodents, bears, dogs, pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, game, eggs, nuts and milk products (Abrams, Food & Evolution 1987).
This was permitted by their diet which was very high in polyunsaturated fats from sea mammals.
Oceans, I'm pleased to report, has dialled the score down from Pink - Floyd - in - concert volume, the script doesn't try too hard to anthropomorphize the sea - going mammals and fish the film displays.
Miller, M.A., et al., «Type X Toxoplasma gondii in a wild mussel and terrestrial carnivores from coastal California: New linkages between terrestrial mammals, runoff and toxoplasmosis of sea otters.»
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.
We admitted just over 500 marine mammal patients in 2012, studied the brains of sea lions, began using specialized darting equipment in the rescue of animals in tricky locations, and brought a sea lion that suffered from a severe bout of leptospirosis back from the brink of death!
A rescued sea otter who suffered from Domoic acid poisoning happily swam home Tuesday morning, thanks to a growing program a Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center designed to assist the protected mammals.
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.
These include three hundred different seaweeds, two hundred species of fish, fifteen hundred invertebrate species ranging from octopus to starfish, oysters and clams, twenty - five species of marine mammals - seals, sea lions, river otters, porpoises and even pods of transiting Orcas.
The escape artists from the sea have arrived at the Marine Mammal Center.
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.
A rescued sea otter who suffered from Domoic acid poisoning happily swam home Tuesday morning, thanks to a growing program at Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center designed to assist the protected mammals.
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.
Be awed by the abundance and variety of marine mammals: Pacific walrus, northern fur seals, gray, humpback, and sperm whales, sea otters and Steller sea lions; and seabirds from the Aleutians to the Commander Islands including horned and tufted puffins, murres and rare whiskered auklets.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Dr. John Hildebrand talked about how acoustic monitoring can be used to study marine mammals and shipping noise around the Channel Islands at the March «From Shore to Sea» lecture.
For the September From Shore to Sea lecture Dr. Pamela Yochem discussed the role and significance of marine mammals in spreading influenza viruses that may pose a risk to human health.
This «kelp highway hypothesis» suggested that highly productive kelp forests supported rich and diverse marine food webs in nearshore waters, including many types of fish, shellfish, birds, marine mammals, and seaweeds that were similar from Japan to California, Erlandson and his colleagues also argued that coastal kelp forests reduced wave energy and provided a linear dispersal corridor entirely at sea level, with few obstacles to maritime peoples.
The gray whale is unique in the use of its baleen feeding technique as contrasted to other baleen whales.According to the National Marine Mammal Laboratory, «Gray whales are bottom feeders, and suck sediment and the «benthic» amphipods that are their prey from the sea floor.
They fished for sea turtles and shellfish and even large sea mammals such as small whales from these canoes.
These magnificent mammals travel from Mexico's Baja Peninsula to the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea waters of Alaska to feed in the fish - rich waters of the North for the winter.
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).
April 6, 2012 Sickly Sea Lion and Seals Recover at The Marine Mammal Center - KTVU - TV He was rescued from the rock and almost didn't survive!
With their exceptionally thick, dark fur, longer tail, lack of true flippers, and their ability to use a rock as a feeding tool, sea otters are easily distinguished from other marine mammals.
Marin County's Marine Mammal Center has been caring for a sea lion pup that was rescued from a dock on Alcatraz Island two weeks ago, spokesman Jim Oswald said.