News tagged with seals
Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper
Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association cooperating ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Eureka! Kitchen gadget inspires scientist to make more effective plastic electronics
One day in 2010, Rutgers physicist Vitaly Podzorov watched a store employee showcase a kitchen gadget that vacuum-seals food in plastic. The demo stuck with him. The simple concept – an airtight seal ...
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Stranded baby seals concern Dutch rescuers
A month ago, a young seal named Marco washed up on a beach on the northern Dutch Frisian island of Ameland, one of a growing number of recently stranded pups that has left his rescuers worried.
Jan 23, 2012 |
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53 dead fur seals wash up on Australian beach
More than 50 dead New Zealand fur seals have been found washed up on a beach in South Australia in unexplained circumstances, according to environmental officials.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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More than 100 baby seals rescued on Dutch coast
A Dutch marine rescue centre for baby seals said Friday more than 100 of the sea mammal pups had washed up along the country's northern coastline after recent storms.
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Harp seals on thin ice after 32 years of warming
Warming in the North Atlantic over the last 32 years has significantly reduced winter sea ice cover in harp seal breeding grounds, resulting in sharply higher death rates among seal pups in recent years, according to a new ...
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Elephant seal travels 18,000 miles
The Wildlife Conservation Society tracked a southern elephant seal for an astonishing 18,000 miles – the equivalent of New York to Sydney and back again.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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Is cannibalism in polar bears on the rise?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A series of photographs of cannibalism in polar bears have been released, and the researchers who witnessed the act think the rate of cannibalism may be increasing. They observed three instances ...
Dec 09, 2011 |
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New study illustrates the physics behind great white shark attacks on seals
A new study examining the complex and dynamic interactions between white sharks and Cape fur seals in False Bay, South Africa, offers new insights on the physical conditions and biological factors underlying ...
Dec 09, 2011 |
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Seal study shows diverse parenting styles
To most of us, one seal seems much like another. But a new study shows they have varied personalities that lead to distinctive approaches to parenting.
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Seals show different levels of parenting skills
(PhysOrg.com) -- Grey seals have different types of personality that affect the extent to which they guard and care for their young, according to new research.
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Seals rehab works, it's official
(PhysOrg.com) -- Injured seals nursed back to life by the RSPCA have as good a chance of surviving when sent back into the wild as their healthy peers, according to new research.
Nov 02, 2011 |
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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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US probes mystery disease killing Arctic seals
US scientists are hoping to uncover answers behind a mysterious disease that has emerged in Arctic seal populations, causing skin lesions, lethargy and death, officials said Friday.
Oct 15, 2011 |
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Insights into Brucella and other gram negative bacteria infecting marine mammals
As with their terrestrial counterparts, marine mammals are colonized by a range of bacteria, some of which are friendly and others which can cause disease.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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