Young male northern elephant seals are captured on camera returning to a deep sea cabled observatory off Canada's British Columbia coast, demonstrating new insight into fish foraging behavior
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308461
Article Title: Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris
Author Countries: Canada, USA, Spain
Funding: Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation-Major Science Initiative (CFI-MSI) fund 30199.
PLOS ONE
10.1371/journal.pone.0308461
Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris
4-Sep-2024
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Additional Media
Three examples of seal apparent reactions to lights: A) seal on bottom immediately leaves area and not seen again on video, B) delayed reaction of resting seal which wakes up and leaves after about 7 seconds, C) resting seal wakes up and leaves after 3 minutes and 28 seconds (on the Axis video). Credit: Frouin-Mouy et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
A young, male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) chases an offscreen sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) at Ocean Networks Canada’s NEPTUNE’s Barkley Canyon observatory site off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Credit: Ocean Networks Canada, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Seal catches sablefish against hydrophone cable. Credit: Frouin-Mouy et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)