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Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). For nearly 60 years, scientists at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) have studied the seals here. Lately, they have used Fitbit-like biomonitors on the seals to understand where [……
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Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone
Tyisha Michaud
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Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). For nearly 60 years, scientists at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) have studied the seals here. Lately, they have used Fitbit-like biomonitors on the seals to understand where
