Dolphin Diets Suggest Extreme Changes in the Ocean May Shorten Food Chains (5 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Dolphin Diets Suggest Extreme Changes in the Ocean May Shorten Food Chains (5 of 9)

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A group of D. delphis that includes mother and calf pairs were swimming and breaching along the R/V Magician near the Santa Catalina Island in the Southern California Bight. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 Oct. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.I. Ruiz-Cooley at San Jose State University in Moss Landing, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Temporal variation in pelagic food chain length in response to environmental change."

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