Recognizing the interconnection of human & #marine #ecosystems is essential, as the stress in one often affects the other.
If you see a marine mammal in distress, please give them space and call the Marine Mammal Care Center’s Marine Mammal Hotline at 1-800-39-WHALE (94253).
#Crisis On The Coast: #DomoicAcid Poisoning Strands 140 #SeaLions & 50 #Dolphins On #California Beaches
The recent influx of #marine #wildlife affected by domoic acid poisoning off the coast of Southern California underscores a critical #environmental crisis, w/≧140 sea lions suffering from this debilitating poison & reports of at least 50 stranded dolphins along local beaches.
#ClimateCrisis #climate #MarineLife #ocean #wildfires #ecosystems #algae #OceanWarming #science
https://worldanimalnews.com/crisis-on-the-coast-domoic-acid-poisoning-strands-140-sea-lions-and-50-dolphins-on-california-beaches/
I think that it's an honorable thing to change your mind occasionally. I don't think it's a sign of weakness or lack of integrity. I believe men are united by their doubts and separated by their convictions. Therefore, it's a very good thing to have doubts. Doubts are the greatest spur to activity that I know of.
-- Peter Ustinov
Bald eagles and sea lions fighting over herring that have just spawn as you can see from the colour of the sea.
Photo taken during my photo tours in the last few days on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
The herring spawn is still going strong and I have some availability this week for tours: https://www.catherinebabault.com/workshops
At the point in the world where I would rather watch hours of sea lion screaming than whatever else is on tv
Next time some guy mansplains anything to me I'm going to just post this video of a sea lion in response to him
“These charismatic animals are naturally curious and are not afraid of people; if one approaches, you are best to make yourself as boring as possible …” 
Advice on what to do if you come across a sea lion, who sometimes turn up in unexpected places in Ōtepoti as their population here grows!
#SeaLions #pakake #MarineMammals
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/sea-lion-population-cusp-milestone
More sealions (video of the din from my bike commute this morning)
OMG y'all almost forgot to post these sea lions. Theres a fenced cutout on the Riverwalk by the Bowline Hotel where they can haul out and you can get close. Here they are in all their comfy snoozing glory but you will have to imagine the snorting barking huffing occasional snarling shifting complaining that goes on more or less ceaselessly while other sea lions swim around and complain that there's no room for them. #phoneography #photography #astoriaoregon #wildlife #sealions
So far, eight females from two #seal colonies have filmed almost 90 hours of footage across more than 500km, helping #scientists to #map 5,000 sq km of #habitat. The #SeaLions have mapped rocky reefs and seagrass meadows along the continental shelf, and shown humans the places that are important to them.
With that information, #conservationists will have much clearer ideas on how to protect the country’s only endemic seal.
Goldsworthy, of the South #Australian #Research and Development Institute #SARDI, has been studying the fast-disappearing #MarineMammal for 25 years. But he says the cameras are a gamechanger.
“Information has been so elusive, because they’re feeding at the bottom of the sea,” he said. “Now we get this amazing, exquisite detail. They’re giving us a window into their world that we haven’t had before.
“Just like humans know our streets, the sea lions know the sea bed in intimate detail for hundreds of kilometres and they build up this knowledge over time. They have a mental map of their environment and they are leading you to places of profound significance for them.”
https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/07/australia-sea-lions-cameras-ocean-floor
The amount of sealions sealioning on a post about anti-black harrasment via sealioning was higher than Willie Nelson on 4/20.
#Sealions are going to be SO pissed when they gain sentence and discover what we use #sealioning for.
California sea lion on a patrol for tasty herring off the coast of Vancouver Island.
Four male sea lions cuddle together on a dock in Newport, OR. (The females stay in CA.)These four sleep peacefully while around them is the barking of other sea lions reacting to a sea lion that changes its position in the large group sleeping on the dock. https://belinda-greb.pixels.com/featured/four-sea-lions-resting-belinda-greb.html #Californiasealions #wildlifephotography #sealions #marinelife #NewportOregon #AYearforArt #cuteanimals
@AimeeMaroux Did you just call me blasé?
Blocked.
Juuuuust joking.
But seriously:
1. All those accounts I screenshot are giants on here, not "new accounts."
2. I don't know anyone on BlueSky -- barely know what it is. Maybe I should get out more. Or, maybe limiting oneself to an hour of social media a day is smart.
3. I've had next to zero negative interactions on here and I'm one seriously opinionated MF'er. My block list has three accounts on it -- all #sealions -- no yellers.
4. What are the options? Running people through an MMPI prior to allowing them on the site? Indulging corporate social media?
I personally think it's a "large account" issue. Whenever follower counts get so large as to not be able to interact meaningfully with mutuals -- people yell to be heard.
I never, ever, follow accounts that have grossly inflated mutual ratios. Those people tell me everything I need to know about them: "I'm too good to sully myself among the unwashed masses."
Those big accounts I posted that are bitching about #Mastodon w/o meaningfully interacting with their followers do more damage than any small account troll ever will. They do so b/c they still roll on the "I'm a big account you must respect me" #birdchan theory --- which many on here specifically reject.
Steller Sea Lion at the Alaska SeaLife Center celebrated Halloween with a fish-stuffed pumpkin. Photo courtesy of ASLC.
#Alaska #SeaLions #Halloween
Galapagos sunbathers enjoy beach. #Galapagos #sealions
