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Gray seals are gregarious animals—they gather in large groups on shore to breed, give birth, and molt. Female gray seals live up to 35 years and males about 25 years. Gray seals primarily hunt squid, fish, and sandeels; their main predators are humans, sharks, and orcas. Gray seal pups are born in autumn (September to November) in the eastern ...
Apr 11, 2024 · The first step is to determine how much iron is in the adult seals’ diets and how that changes throughout the year. Gray seals catch and eat a variety of fishes, crustaceans, and squid, all of which have different amounts of iron. The seals’ whiskers act as a sort of dietary timeline, incorporating molecular signatures from various food ...
Sep 3, 2014 · Sep 3, 2014. #10. One clarification: we do not usually use the word "affix" for a stamp that leaves an ink mark - we normally use the word when we refer to attaching a physical object to the page (s) - like the self-adhesive piece of paper kind of stamp, or a seal that is glued (i.e affixed). Most people when they hear the word will think of ...
An adult male Mediterranean monk seal swims through a national park in Madeira, which is home to one of three remaining populations.
Dec 31, 2008 · The notary's seal is recorded on one page, usually the last, but persons signing the document may be required to initial beside important points or statements in the document. In Britain and other English-speaking countries, they use a similar system, but notaries tend to be solicitors (lawyers) with additional training.
After some intense fieldwork on the barrier beach of Sable Island, Nova Scotia over the 2023-24 winter, Shero tracked tagged gray seal pups from the comfort of her lab at WHOI on Cape Cod. She was amazed to watch as this two month-old pup came closer and closer, making landfall at the Cape Cod National Seashore by mid-March.
Oct 29, 2024 · Woods Hole, Mass. (Oct. 29, 2024) – Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world’s southernmost living mammal – the Weddell seal. These seals may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on the ice, but Weddell seals go to great lengths to make a living in the harshest and most rapidly changing environments.
Jan 27, 2016 · Heather Beem is closely examining seal whiskers for insights to design new undersea technology. (New England Aquarium; inset: Heather Beem, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Like many other animals, seals can use their whiskers to touch objects to determine their size, shape, and distance away.
Mar 3, 2008 · Mar 3, 2008. #2. Here, "my hand" means "my signature" (la mia firma), referring to the signature of the public official, which follows. It is one of those archaic legal fixed phrases. It means something like ... "Executed by [means of] my signature and the Seal ..." Using "executed by" in the sense of "brought into effect/force by", "carried ...
Nov 26, 2013 · Seals “haul out” on Cape beaches, leaving the water to mate, give birth, avoid predators, rest, or warm up. There was once a bounty on gray seals in New England; hunters in Massachusetts and Maine got $5 if they turned in a nose or skin. From the 1890s until the 1960s, an estimated 135,000 seals were killed, and seals disappeared from Cape Cod.
