How marine biologists are using elephant seals as nature's 'artificial intelligence'
Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...
Foraging seals enable scientists to measure fish abundance across the vast Pacific Ocean
A new study led by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Roxanne Beltran to be published as the February 14 cover story for Science ...
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Tracey Weiss, Our Ocean Backyard | Welcoming the elephant seals and changing tides
northern elephant seals spend about nine months of the year in the ocean, most of the time underwater, with only short breaks at the surface. We are near one of California’s best places to view ...
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Seals Help Oceanographers Explore Underwater
In the winter of 1999, Guy Williams took a trip to the Antarctic. A PhD student in oceanography at the University of Tasmania, he had become fascinated with the role polynyas—unfrozen expanses of ...
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Thousands of elephant seals are returning to Año Nuevo State Park, where construction is finishing on spiffy new facilities
It’s one of Northern California’s most famous wildlife shows. Every year, up to 10,000 elephant seals — the giant, blubbery pinnipeds that can weigh 5,000 pounds, grow as long as a Toyota ...
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Foraging seals enable scientists to measure fish abundance across the vast Pacific Ocean
Northern elephant seals serve as effective "smart sensors" for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's twilight zone, a region between 200 and 1,000 meters deep.