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Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone
By Spoorthy Raman Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding ...
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Researchers enlist animals' help to pierce the mysteries of the twilight zone of the sea: 'It was really exciting'
University of California researchers have gathered 350,000 observations on over 50,000 elephant seals over more than 60 years ...
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Northern elephant seals help scientists explore the twilight zone
Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet. Little is known about this part of the ocean ...
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Acoustic survey finds twilight zone in Southern ocean an emporium of fish, BAS report
The twilight-zone fish migrate vertically, feeding on zooplankton in surface waters before returning to the ocean depths during the day. This vertical migration transports surface carbon to deep ...
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Ocean Guardians: How elephant seals are acting as 'smart sensors' for scientists to unlock ocean secrets
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been tracking their movements to study marine ecosystems, particularly the ocean's mysterious "twilight zone." Seals Dive Deep to ...
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Seals can essentially act as 'smart sensors': Study
Marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have discovered that northern elephant seals can serve as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight zone. Seals' foraging ...