[FMSEA] California sea lion's fate is "sealed"

Jim Wharton jimwharton at mote.org
Tue May 22 08:13:20 EDT 2007

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Something from the SHARK-L from Shark researcher Sean Van Sommeran 
(edited for length). Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the 
water...

So earlier this month we're up at Ano Nuevo Island...when we observed 
dispalcement of water, gathering birds and a
slick in the distance...

Big splashes, red water and big struggling pinniped of some sort.

>From approx 50 meter out we come to full stop and pick up the
observation. Blood in the water, birds and slick.

Then the water erupts again, its a large male (subadult) stellar sealion 
with a california sealion rag-dolled in its mouth like a pit bull with a
chihuahua.

The stellar sealion just destroyed the juvenile
common sealion (Zalophus).

What's stranger still is that the
stellar sealion was not only dismantling the sealion but eating it.

This has only been reported a few times and was the first time any
of us had witnessed it.

Here pictures taken with my little 7.5
mp Olympus digi, they are now up on our image archive:

http://www.pelagic.org/archive/2007-may-8-stellarpred/index.html

Check it out.
At first we though it was a white shark
predation on a large seal, instead it was large sealion eating another
sealion.

See something new every day.

Sean R.  Van Sommeran
Executive
Director/CEO
The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation




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Something from the SHARK-L from Shark researcher Sean Van Sommeran
(edited for length). Just when you thought it was safe to go back in
the water...<br>
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<pre>So earlier this month we're up at Ano Nuevo Island...when we observed 
dispalcement of water, gathering birds and a
slick in the distance...

Big splashes, red water and big struggling pinniped of some sort.

>From approx 50 meter out we come to full stop and pick up the
observation. Blood in the water, birds and slick.

Then the water erupts again, its a large male (subadult) stellar sealion 
with a california sealion rag-dolled in its mouth like a pit bull with a
chihuahua.

The stellar sealion just destroyed the juvenile
common sealion (Zalophus).

What's stranger still is that the
stellar sealion was not only dismantling the sealion but eating it.

This has only been reported a few times and was the first time any
of us had witnessed it.

Here pictures taken with my little 7.5
mp Olympus digi, they are now up on our image archive:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pelagic.org/archive/2007-may-8-stellarpred/index.html">http://www.pelagic.org/archive/2007-may-8-stellarpred/index.html</a>

Check it out.
At first we though it was a white shark
predation on a large seal, instead it was large sealion eating another
sealion.

See something new every day.

Sean R.  Van Sommeran
Executive
Director/CEO
The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation</pre>
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