Northern elephant #seals use deep-sea research #sonar as dinner bell https://phys.org/news/2024-09-northern-elephant-deep-sea-sonar.html
#DeepSea observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern #ElephantSeals, Mirounga angustirostris: Héloïse Frouin-Mouy et al. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308461
"The seals appeared to use this sound to locate an area with prey and may take advantage of #fish disturbed by the camera lights, particularly targeting #sablefish, their preferred meal, as seen in the video footage"
Northern elephant seals were repeatedly captured on camera in the deep Pacific Ocean using sonar from an Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) observatory as a dinner bell to forage for their next fish feast, according to a new study led by University of Victoria researchers.
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In the #lawsuit filed last year, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity alleged the agency #failed to establish a plan to #protect the #whales from #deadly #entanglements in sablefish pot gear. In a December 2021 permit, #NOAA authorized "the incidental, but not intentional" take, or catch, of listed or #protected #MarineMammal #species in the #Washington , #Oregon & #California #sablefish pot fishery.