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Young male northern elephant seals are captured on camera returning to a deep sea cabled observatory off Canada's British Columbia coast, demonstrating new insight into fish foraging behavior

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Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

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A young, male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) chases an offscreen sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) at Ocean Networks Canada’s NEPTUNE’s Barkley Canyon observatory site off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.

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Credit: Ocean Networks Canada, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Young male northern elephant seals are captured on camera returning to a deep sea cabled observatory off Canada's British Columbia coast, demonstrating new insight into fish foraging behavior

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0308461

Article Title: Deep-sea cabled video-observatory provides insights into the behavior at depth of sub-adult male northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

Author Countries: Canada, USA, Spain

Funding: Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation-Major Science Initiative (CFI-MSI) fund 30199.


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