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Steller Sea Lion. By: Heidi V.B. Mack Biels. What our topic is:. Animalia kingdom Chordata phylum Mammalia class Carnivora order Otariidae family. Found in:. Northern Californian coast, north to Alaska, across Bering straits to coasts of Japan and Russia.
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Steller Sea Lion By: Heidi V.B. Mack Biels
What our topic is: • Animalia kingdom • Chordata phylum • Mammalia class • Carnivora order • Otariidae family
Found in: • Northern Californian coast, north to Alaska, across Bering straits to coasts of Japan and Russia. • Breeding groups in Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Importance: • Top-level carnivores that consume a wide variety of fish and cephalopods. • Hunted for their meat, fur, and oils.--played a part in their population. Destruction also happened due to nets, pollutants, and ship strikes. • Positive effects for us- body parts for valuable material, food. • Negative effects for us- crop pests • Though to deplete fish stocks and eat fish out of hatcheries. • Skin is used for boat covers • Whiskers are used for Chinese opium pipes.
External: • Increased incidence of parasites and disease • predation by Killer Whales • nutritional stress through competition with or other species for food. • nutritional stress caused by natural and or human-induced changes in the abundance, quality, and destruction of prey. • meteorological changes • pollutions and toxic substances
External cont. • entanglement in marine debris • incidental and intentional take by man • boat and ship strikes • illegal hunting and shooting • offshore oil and gas exploration • http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/sealion_stellar_kodiak
Systems working together: • Oil contamination to their environment needs to drop. That’s killing not only the pups but adults too. • Killer whales need to stop consuming so many (18% of their population) every year • Climate change has to slow or stop because it is causing nutritional deficiencies • Cures to the new diseases and parasites need to be found and acted on. The disease causes need to found as well. • Pregnancy rates need to increase, as does pup survival.
What can be done to optimize: • Steller sea lions are well-protected under federal law • No one can hunt or bother them • Certain spots have been declared no fishing zones so the sea lions can eat • There’s a lot of research going on about the best ways to decrease their death rate.
Projections: • Increase in number and population • Go extinct • Adapt to new habitat
Worksited: • Www.Animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Eumetopias_jubatus/#economic_importance_positive • www.afsc.noaa.gov/Education/factsheets//0_ssl_fs.pdf • www.eoearth.org/view/acticle/15620/ • www.A-z-animals.com/animals/sea-lion/ • www.arkive.org/stellers-sea-lion/eumetopias-jubatus/classification:eumetopiasjubatus • www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/steller-sea-lion/ • www.Marinebio.org/species.asp?id=315 • www.marinemammals.org/biology/steller-sea-lion/sea-lion-population-decline • www.adfg.Alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=325 • www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/steller-sea-lion/ • https://seagrant.uaf.edu/nusb.papers.1999/eancchorage_sealion.html