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Gray seals congregate on Billingsgate Shoal.

Gray seals congregate on Billingsgate Shoal.
Gray seals congregate on Billingsgate Shoal.
Gray seals congregate on Billingsgate Shoal.
Gray seals congregate on Billingsgate Shoal.
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Canavan, Jim
Gray seals congregate on Billingsgate Shoal.
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10/17/2007
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Image of The Day (2) caption:
People come from miles away to see the seals off the shores of Cape Cod, but the animals are creating some challenges for local fishermen. Increasing seal populations led to the creation of a new effort to improve our understanding of the ecological role of seals in North Atlantic waters. "This encompasses all issues: how they live, where they go, what they eat, their health and illnesses, and interactions with the worldincluding usaround them," says WHOI researcher Andrea Bogomolni. The new Marine Animal Identification Network also provides info on tagged animals and a database of sightings.
Image of The Day (1) caption:
Grey seals congregate and relax on Billingsgate Shoal, near Wellfleet, Mass. WHOI biologists Andrea Bogomolni and Michael Moore have joined colleagues in screening seals and other marine animals--and their scat--for the presence of influenza, Brucella, Leptospira, Giardia and Cryptosporidium and other traces of disease that they might be picking from contact with humans and their waste. Bogomolni and Moore are also active collaborators with the Cape Cod Stranding Network, a group that rehabilitates (when possible) and studies marine mammals who have dangerously beached themselves or become entangled with fishing gear and other manmade objects.
Biologist Michael Moore and Research Associate Andrea Bogomolni researching seals on Billingsgate Shoal and studying dead Eider ducks on Jeremy Point, Wellfleet, MA.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, vol. 50, no. 2, page 58:
Seals "haul out" on Cape beaches, leaving the water to mate, give birth, avoid predators, rest, or warm up.
Photo by Jim Canavan. NOAA Permit 775-1875-00
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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