Hordes of raucous sea lions, gathering on the beach for the mating season, eventually drove him to the island's interior.

The Pinnipedia superfamily ( walruses, seals, and sea lions ), now considered to be part of Caniformia, are medium to large ( to 6. 5 m ) aquatic mammals.

There are sea lions on the coast of Wales and other countries.

Even in 2010, more than forty years after the U. S. ban, California condors which feed on sea lions at Big Sur which in turn feed in the Palos Verdes Shelf area of the Montrose Chemical Superfund site seemed to be having continued thin-shell problems.

They are sometimes called crawling seals to distinguish them from the fur seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae.

They are more streamlined than fur seals and sea lions, so can swim more effectively over long distances.

* Family Otariidae: Fur seals and sea lions

They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears ( pinnae ), relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours.

Until recently, fur seals were all grouped under a single subfamily of Pinnipedia, called Arctocephalinae, to contrast them with Otariinae – the sea lions – based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs.

Fur seals are generally smaller than sea lions.

The fur seals themselves are preyed upon by sharks, orcas and occasionally by larger sea lions.

Some feed exclusively on fish, while others hunt marine mammals such as sea lions, seals, walruses, and even large whales.

alt = A pod of at least a dozen sea lions, swimming underwater

In steeply banked beaches off Península Valdés, Argentina, and the Crozet Islands, killer whales feed on South American sea lions and southern elephant seals in shallow water, even beaching temporarily to grab prey before wriggling back to the sea.

Resident killer whales swim with porpoises, other dolphins, seals, and sea lions, which are common prey for transient killer whales.

* Seals ( Family Phocidae ), sea lions ( Family Otariidae-which also include the fur seals ), and the Walrus ( Family Odobenidae ) are all considered pinnipeds.

The fact that females appear to have outnumbered males two to one suggests that, as with modern animals with size-related sexual dimorphism, such as sea lions and other pinnipeds, Pteranodon might have been polygynous, with a few males competing for association with groups consisting of large numbers of females.

Unlike the other marine mammals ( dolphins, whales, seals, sea lions, sea otters, and walruses ), sirenians eat primarily sea-grasses and other aquatic vegetation and have an extremely low metabolism and poor tolerance for especially cold water.

The walrus's body shape shares features with both sea lions ( eared seals: Otariidae ) and seals ( true seals: Phocidae ).

Other marine mammals include the River otter ( Lontra canadensis ), Steller sea lions ( Eumetopias jubatus ), Common minke whales ( Balaenoptera acutorostrata ), Dall's porpoise ( Phocoenoides dalli ) and other cetaceans.

Marine animals such as whales and sea lions are occasionally found far inland after navigating the river for food or refuge and then losing track of how to get back to the Pacific Ocean.

The great white is an epipelagic fish, observed mostly in the presence of rich game, such as fur seals, sea lions, cetaceans, other sharks, and large bony fish species.

They comprise 16 species in seven genera commonly known either as sea lions or fur seals, distinct from true seals ( phocids ) and the Walrus ( odobenids ).

A tsunami may be started by a sea bottom slide, an earthquake or a volcanic eruption.

A tug-of-war between an old bottle and an inefficient corkscrew may do as much harm as a week at sea.

Later, it was taken across the sea to East Africa and may have been taken inland at the time of the Great Zimbabwe civilization.

The manner in which artillery units or formations are employed is called artillery support, and may at different periods in history refer to weapons designed to be fired from ground, sea, and even air-based weapons platforms.

19th century craftsmen were famed for their ornate wooden hunting hats, which feature elaborate and colorful designs and may be trimmed with sea lion whiskers, feathers, and ivory.

One of the densest natural sources for phages and other viruses is sea water, where up to 9 × 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > virions per milliliter have been found in microbial mats at the surface, and up to 70 % of marine bacteria may be infected by phages.

Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").

Sediment cores show that tropical sea surface temperatures may have briefly been as warm as 42 ° C ( 107 ° F ), 17 ° C ( 31 ° F ) warmer than at present, and that they averaged around 37 ° C ( 99 ° F ).

However, even Walter Alvarez has acknowledged that there were other major changes on Earth even before the impact, such as a drop in sea level and massive volcanic eruptions that produced the Indian Deccan Traps, and these may have contributed to the extinctions.

It is impossible to define narrowly the boundaries of this early land of Chaldea, and one may only locate it generally in the low, marshy, alluvial land about the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which then discharged their waters through separate mouths into the sea.

Many marine biologists are now skeptical of this supposed sighting, and it is suggested that the creature may instead have been a sea cucumber.

The reason for this may be that the fishermen often drowned in great numbers, and the stories of restless dead coming in from sea were more common up north than anywhere else in the country.

Large engines may use water, sea water, or oil supplied through telescoping pipes attached to the crosshead.

Recent work suggests that this may not be the case with single stranded viruses forming the majority of viruses found in sea water, fresh water, sediment, terrestrial, extreme, metazoan-associated and marine microbial mats.

Eritrea exports fish and sea cucumbers from the Red Sea to markets in Europe and Asia, and there is hope that the construction of a new, jet-capable airport in Massawa, as well as rehabilitation of the port there, may support increased exports of high-value seafood.

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During an eruption, the sea temperature around the island may increase from just above freezing to about.

The actual population of the Desventuradas may be higher, because the species tends to hide in sea caves.

Newton observed that “ A good watch may serve to keep a reckoning at sea for some days and to know the time of a celestial observation ; and for this end a good Jewel may suffice till a better sought of watch can be found out.

In his most recent book, " The Vanishing Face of Gaia ", he rejects scientific modelling that disagrees with the scientific findings that sea levels are rising faster, and Arctic ice is melting faster, than the models predict and he suggests that we may already be beyond the tipping point of terrestrial climate into a permanently hot state.

It has been suggested that this may have actually been a strategic decision by Richard rather than a failure as such, as he may have recognized that Jerusalem in particular was in fact a strategic liability as long as the crusaders were obligated to defend it, as it was isolated from the sea where Western reinforcements could arrive.

The decline of sea otters followed a decline in harbour seal and Steller sea lion populations, the killer whale's preferred prey, which in turn may be substitutes for their original prey, now decimated by industrial whaling.