Sea Otters
Durophagous biting in sea otters (Enhydra lutris) differs kinematically from raptorial biting of other marine mammals
... Sea otters are interesting in the context of mammalian feeding evolution as they have secondarily returned to the sea relatively recently ( ∼ 5 million years ago; Berta and Morgan, 1985) compared ...
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Energetic demands of immature sea otters from birth to weaning: implications for maternal costs, reproductive behavior and population level trends
... northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Prince William Sound, Alaska, concluded that female body condition was the major driver leading to postpartum mother–pup separations (Garshelis and Garshelis, ...
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Active touch in sea otters: in air and underwater texture discrimination thresholds and behavioral strategies for paws and vibrissae
... Sea otters are amphibious mammals that dive <100 m to capture invertebrate prey along the north Pacific coastline (Bodkin et ...ecosystems, sea otters consume prey occurring in diverse ...
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Harlequin Ducks ( Histrionicus histrionicus ) Scavenge Sea Urchin Fragments from Foraging Sea Otters ( Enhydra lutris )
... Sea Otters were extirpated from British columbia in a commercial fur trade that started in the late 1700s (Kenyon ...known Sea Otter in the prov - ince was killed in 1929 (cowan and guiguet ...1972, ...
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The high cost of reproduction in sea otters necessitates unique physiological adaptations
... energetics, sea otters conform more to patterns observed in terrestrial rather than marine mammals, which appear to have negligible milk production costs (Costa and Trillmich, 1988; Costa et ...of ...
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Sea otters and iron : a global microhistory of value and exchange at Nootka Sound 1774 1792
... Looking at Walker’s account, in conjunction with similar accounts by Captain Cook, we see very different perceptions of commercial exchange and value between the Mowachaht people and Captain Strange. What im- mediately ...
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Reproductive Parameters, Heavy Metal Concentrations, and Disease Prevalence in North American River Otters (Lontra canadensis) Across North Carolina.
... Our study was one of the first to examine diseases in otters in North Carolina. We determined that leptospirosis occurred at low levels throughout North Carolina. Because L. interrogans can spread through ...
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The Law of the Sea Convention and Sea Level Rise after the South China Sea Arbitration
... a sea level rise caused by an- thropogenic climate ...by sea level rise could make a case that the territory was pre- viously inhabited, and thus retains the character of land by being clear of the water at ...
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Nitric oxide (NO) in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea
... Abstract. Nitric oxide (NO) is a short-lived compound of the marine nitrogen cycle; however, our knowledge about its oceanic distribution and turnover is rudimentary. Here we present the measurements of dissolved NO in ...
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Orientation and open sea navigation in sea turtles
... The ability to return to a specific nesting beach from hundreds or thousands of kilometers away after years in the open ocean is not uncommon among sea turtles. Green turtles that nest on tiny Ascension Island, ...
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Realism and Naturalism in Iris Murdoch’s ‘The Sea, The Sea’
... The Sea, The Sea that “It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed ...The Sea, The Sea signifies its writer Dame Jean Iris ...
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The mesozooplankton in the wadden sea of Sylt (North Sea)
... Zooplankton screened from 10 1 surface water samples twice daily was counted under the microscope and calculated zooplankton carbon was taken as biomass measure.. Th[r] ...
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Evaluation of the Wadden Sea Particularly sensitive Sea Area. On behalf of the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat.
... Shipping provides the global arteries of commerce, through which an estimated 85% of world trade is undertaken. Furthermore shipping and ports can also be seen as major drivers of globalisation and economic prosperity. ...
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An experiment in the transplantation of plaice from the Barents Sea ("White Sea") to the North Sea
... At the head of each of five columns is given the label number of the White Sea plaice with its original size, growth, and number of days at liberty, Below each comes It list of North Sea[r] ...
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Deglacial sea level history of the East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea margins
... Relative sea level datums were calculated for intervals in cores 4-PC1 and 20-GC dated at approximately 13.5–10.7 ka as follows. The depth of the core interval containing the 14 C- dated, nearshore ostracode and ...
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Sea Turtles & Cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea: biology & conservation
... the Sea Turtles Recovering Center and we are going to realize 2 day-trip in the Ionian Sea on the boat “Taras” of the Jonian Dolphin Research Center participating in their activities of research and ...
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Farming the sea
... AUSTRALIAN MARICULTURE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TASMANIA The Fisheries Division, Department of Primary Industry now Australian Department of Agriculture reviewed briefly Australian mari[r] ...
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Fertilization in the sea
... gradient around live eggs prevents navigation by sperm. Individual red abalone eggs were placed in 400 µl of filtered sea water (FSW) or the indicated test solution, after which sperm were added and video-recorded ...
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SEA SURVIVAL
... Your best protection against the effects of cold water is to get into the life raft, stay dry, and insulate your body from the cold surface of the... If these actions are not possible, w[r] ...
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Health and SEA
... where SEA is more routinely applied, for example, in statutory land use and transport planning, structured EIA based processes have shown to be able to lead to some positive results in terms of making decisions ...
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