News tagged with sea lions
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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Where did SF Bay's sea lions go? Try Oregon Coast
(AP) -- Hundreds of sea lions that abruptly blew out of San Francisco Bay's Pier 39 last Thanksgiving have apparently found a new home at another tourist attraction - 500 miles north on the Oregon coast.
Jan 09, 2010 |
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Famous San Francisco sea lions leave in droves
(AP) -- Two mysteries surround a huge herd of sea lions that were hanging out on a pier in San Francisco Bay: Why did so many show up, and why did so many leave at once?
Dec 30, 2009 |
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Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Sea lions killed, but Columbia salmon toll rises
(AP) -- Killing or removing 25 California sea lions over the past two years has not reduced the toll on salmon at the base of Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River.
Nov 07, 2009 |
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Tribal effort to fix broken world hinges on condor
(AP) -- The tribes of the lower Klamath River have since ancient times decorated themselves with condor feathers when they performed the dances designed to heal a world gone wrong.
Aug 16, 2009 |
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Sick sea critters aided by Marine Mammal Center
(AP) -- A recent surge in weakened and malnourished sea lions found along the Northern California coast is mystifying scientists and keeping workers hopping at the newly expanded Marine Mammal Center here.
Jun 14, 2009 |
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Fossil evidence of missing link in the origin of seals, sea lions, walruses found in Canadian Arctic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a "missing link" in the ...
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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