Female elephant seals hunt nonstop, sleeping just 1 hour a night
Female elephant seals spend most of the year hunting fishes in the deep Pacific Ocean. Claudio Contreras Female elephant seals hunt nonstop, sleeping just 1 hour a night May. 12, 2021 , 2:00 PM There’s no 9-to-5 for female northern elephant seals. After the winter breeding season, the animals spend more than 19 hours—and up to 24 hours—per day hunting in the northern Pacific Ocean, killing up to 2000 small fish daily to survive, according to a new study of these elusive animals. The work, made possible by cameras and devices attached to the seals’ heads, could also help scien...
Source: sciencemag.org