Sentences with phrase «walrus use»

Pacific walrus use the floating pack ice both as a platform on which to rest between feeding bouts and as a passive transport around their habitat.

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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.

Study co-author Dr Carolina Loch says this was the first time the enamel ultrastructure of fur seals and sea lions, as well as the extinct walrus Pelagiarctos, was studied using scanning electron microscopy.

Now, a new analysis using the same sort of computer software that engineers employ to analyze bridges and aircraft parts suggests that Kolponomos may have collected its shelly prey in a unique way: They might have used their teeth and formidable neck muscles to clamp down on clams, mussels, and other mollusks and then wrench them directly off the rocks to which they were attached, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (Modern marine mammals that consume such prey either slurp them right out of the shell, as walruses do, or pry them from the rocks using their forelimbs and then eat them, as otters do.)

A new paper from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), in partnership with researchers and practitioners from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Space Quest, Google, and SkyTruth, reviews the use of a maritime vessel communication and navigational safety system that is not only effective in protecting people, but wildlife such as whales, walruses, and other wildlife species as well.

The Wild Arctic tour includes a behind - the - scenes chance to see other Arctic creatures, including walruses and seals, safely in enclosures they use when they are not on view to the general public.

I did this once with walrus where we attached a camera to the tusk of the animal, another time with the bowhead whale using a suction cup attaching a camera to the back of the whale, and yet again more recently with my 3D Polar Bear film attaching a camera to a female polar bear.

Hi did not participate (as far as I can remember... but I have an open mind, and if someone shows that I did then I accept the evidence, but obviously I could have been abducted by aliens and it could have been the aliens, dressed as a walrus that answered the survey using a mind probe to illicit the answer... / sarc)

Using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Obama blocked drilling in large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic, home to several endangered species, including the bowhead whale, fin whale, Pacific walrus, and polar bear.

«Loss of habitat directly impacts polar bears, seals and walruses, which use the ice for foraging, reproduction and resting, and for also for people who use ice for hunting, travel and other activities.»

Using an acoustic recorder, and between sounds of killer whales and walrus, Ms. Crance picked up faint calls of a right whale east of Bristol Bay, Alaska.»

Shell's approved exploration plan is even bigger, dirtier, and louder than 2012, including the use of two drilling rigs in a concentrated area and a bigger armada of vessels, all posing a threat to wildlife including whales, walruses and seals, as well as air and water pollution discharges.

And we are really using that boldness as a bigger message, as a metaphor for us humans: that if walruses and bears can figure out a way to adapt and survive and carry on in this warming world, then why can't we do the same in our lives?