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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

09.04.24 | PLOS

Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

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/)

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

Seal makes 10 head bobs while chasing sablefish. Sablefish has a delayed startle response. Credit: Frouin-Mouy et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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/)

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/)

Keywords

Coastlines Foraging Behavior Marine Biology

Article Information

Journal

PLOS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0308461

Article Publication Date

2024-09-04

Article Title

Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

COI Statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah

PLOS

onepress@plos.org

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PLOS. (2024, September 4). 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. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8X5O0401/young-male-northern-elephant-seals-are-captured-on-camera-returning-to-a-deep-sea-cabled-observatory-off-canadas-british-columbia-coast-demonstrating-new-insight-into-fish-foraging-behavior.html

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"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." Brightsurf News, Sep. 4 2024, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8X5O0401/young-male-northern-elephant-seals-are-captured-on-camera-returning-to-a-deep-sea-cabled-observatory-off-canadas-british-columbia-coast-demonstrating-new-insight-into-fish-foraging-behavior.html.