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What’s driving thousands of South African seal deaths?

February 23, 2022

Over the past six months, thousands of Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) have been turning up dead on South Africa’s Atlantic Coast. No one is sure why, but Tess Gridley, a scientist who ordinarily studies …

Conservation News

Polar bear diets reveal a changing Arctic

December 15, 2021

As the climate warms in the Arctic—two to three times faster than in the rest of the world—polar bears are changing what they eat. By uncovering their diets, researchers found, they can learn about more …

Dana Kobilinsky

TWS2021: Indigenous hunters teach researchers about seals

November 3, 2021

Conversations that researchers have had with indigenous hunters in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, have revealed information about where seal species are showing up and how climate change may impact them. By including indigenous knowledge in habitat models, …

Conservation News

TWS2021: Climate change may shift seal prey in Arctic

October 29, 2021

Climate change could change the number and location of fish that seals prey on in Hudson Bay by the end of the century, likely affecting seal populations. Past studies have shown the direct effects climate …

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Watch: Bearded seals can’t compete with industrial sounds

March 1, 2021

The loud sounds bearded seals emit underwater may not be noisy enough to overcome the sound from increasing industrial activities off the coast of Alaska. Recent research highlighted how bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) noise can …

Joshua Rapp Learn

The deafening underwater soundscape of bearded seals

February 3, 2021

Bearded seals create a deafening underwater soundscape in the Canadian Arctic Ocean — particularly during mating season. Explorations of the types of sounds they make and the volume of those noises can help researchers eventually …

Joshua Rapp Learn

Translocating young Hawaiian monk seals improves survival

September 3, 2020

Shifting young Hawaiian monk seals from their whelping beaches to safer areas free of sharks and the threat of entanglement in marine debris may improve survival for the endangered marine mammals. “We had way higher …

FYI News

Did climate change allow an Arctic wildlife virus to spread?

November 13, 2019

Melting sea ice may be to blame for the spread of a wildlife virus from one side to the Arctic to the other. The issue emerged in 2004 when Pacific sea otters and seals off …

FYI News

Bearded seals reproduce more despite climate change

May 7, 2019

Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) mothers are producing more pups, which then go on to mature at younger ages. According to a new project, which drew from indigenous subsistence hunters in Alaskan coastal villages and researchers …

FYI News

Marine mammals lost gene that protects against pesticide

August 15, 2018

As marine mammals evolved, they lost the ability to make a protein that defends land-dwelling mammals from the effects of a common pesticide — one that is increasingly finding its way into the sea. Affected …

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