Showing posts with label sea ice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea ice. Show all posts

Sunday, January 13, 2008

ANTARCTIC "Seal Cam" Images

I have seen "turtle cam" before. Scientists view the habitat and the organism they are studying from the back of the Weddell Seal, so they can also study the habits of the seal without having to kill anything.
Why not do this to whales? Gosh, think how many cameras you could connect to a whale and have WHALE-A-VISION. It could be an excellent way to study their feeding habits and other patterns of behavior. Could record sounds also.
Can someone suggest this to prevent whale killing?
clipped from www.nsf.gov
Under the Antarctic Ice--Antarctic Toothfish
Toothfish Under the Antarctic Ice
Under the Antarctic Ice--Antarctic Toothfish
Swimming beneath the Antarctic ice, an Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) is photographed by "seal cam." Seal cam is an on-going National Science Foundation
scientists use seals as "eyes" to see what goes on underneath the Antarctic ice
Weddell seals are a predator of the toothfish.


Toothfish are found throughout Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula, South Orkney Islands and South Shetland Islands, from 0 to 695 meters depth.
A well-adapted hunter, the lateral line sensory system of the toothfish can detect prey by recognizing the low vibration frequencies emitted by swimming crustaceans.
More about this Image

Researchers Lee Fuiman from the University of Texas, Austin, Randall Davis from Texas A&M University, Galveston, and Terrie Williams from the University of California, Santa Cruz, equipped 15 Antarctic Weddell seals with video cameras, infrared LEDs and data recorders.
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