News tagged with sea lions
Filmmaker sounds alarm over ocean of plastic
On Midway atoll in the North Pacific, dozens of young albatross lie dead on the sand, their stomachs filled with cigarette lighters, toy soldiers and other small plastic objects their parents have mistaken ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Juvenile predation preventing Steller sea lion recovery
A new study suggests that the impact of predation on juvenile Steller sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska has been significantly underestimated, creating a "productivity pit" from which their population will have ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Antarctic fur seals breed where they were born
Scientists have discovered that female Antarctic fur seals have an uncanny ability to return to within a body length of where they were born when it's time to breed.
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Researchers pay for Alaska sea lion intrusion
A science consortium has agreed to a civil penalty of $9,000 for intruding into Alaska waters that were declared off-limits to protect endangered Steller sea lions.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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NW tribes drive effort to save primitive fish
(AP) -- As long as American Indians have lived in the Pacific Northwest, they have looked to a jawless, eel-like fish for food.
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Competition with humans responsible for decline of New Zealand's endangered sea lions, study shows
Marine researchers in New Zealand have identified the direct impact of fishing as the largest known human factor in the decline of the endangered native sea lion population. The team's findings, published in Mammal Review, discou ...
Aug 02, 2011 |
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Toxin found in sardines that clogged US marina
(AP) -- The millions of sardines that were found floating dead in a Southern California marina this week tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin, researchers said Friday. ...
Mar 12, 2011 |
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Reports of sea lion shootings on rise in Calif.
(AP) -- The weak and woozy California sea lion found on a San Francisco Bay-area beach in December with buckshot embedded in its skull has become an all-too-common sight for wildlife officials.
Jan 02, 2011 |
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Small fish exploits forbidding environment
Jellyfish moved into the oceans off the coast of southwest Africa when the sardine population crashed. Now another small fish is living in the oxygen-depleted zone part-time and turning the once ecologically ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Environmental scandal in Chile
Until recently, the disastrous scale of the threat posed by salmon farms to the fauna and National Park of the Aysen region of southern Chile was entirely unknown. The unexpected discovery was made by researchers ...
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Memory of mum's voice remains strong for young sea lions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Young sea lions are able to recognise their mother's voices long after they've been weaned, a new Macquarie University study has found. The research provides rare evidence of the long-term ...
May 27, 2010 |
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Expanded hospital opens at Calif. aquarium
(AP) -- They don't cry, cough or run a fever, so how can you tell when a fish is sick?
May 21, 2010 |
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Bald eagle diet shift enhances conservation
An unprecedented study of bald eagle diet, from about 20,000 to 30,000 years ago to the present, will provide wildlife managers with unique information for reintroducing Bald Eagles to the Channel Islands ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Starving sea lion pups wash up on Calif. beaches
(AP) -- Marine mammal experts say dozens of hungry and sick sea lion pups have washed up on Southern California beaches this winter and many have died at rescue centers.
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Most sea lions gone from Ore. coast
(AP) -- The thousands of California sea lions that showed up this winter off the central Oregon coast seem to have largely moved on.
Mar 04, 2010 |
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