"He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all
directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities."

John Steinbeck - Log from the Sea of Cortez

Friday, January 25, 2013

Great video...

...from the New Scientist web site.

Elephant seals are known to dive to depths of over a mile, remaining submerged for more than an hour, in search of food.  We haven't been able to watch the process, at least at the depths, until this.  A teenager watching a live video feed for a camera at a depth of almost 900 meters in the North Pacific saw this elephant seal making a snack of a lamprey.

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