For humans, putting on a few extra pounds around the holidays is not always desirable and can occasionally be unhealthy. Northern fur seal pups, though, need to put on as much weight as possible before their moms wean and abandon them.
Farallones Categories: pinniped
Observing white shark predation
In the fall, sharks migrate to the coast of California, including the Farallon Islands, to feed on pinnipeds (seals or sea-lions) when the abundance of immature animals is at its peak. This gives us a unique opportunity to study them. On September 27 as we were watching from the Lighthouse atop Southeast Farallon Island, a swarm of gulls began to circle and a pool of blood was observed in Fisherman’s Bay, indicating that a shark had just found a meal.
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