Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris (VIDEO)
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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).
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Frouin-Mouy et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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