Meet Rare Sea Wolves Who Live Off The Ocean And Can Swim For Hours
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Along the wild Pacific coast of British Columbia, there lives a population of the sea wolves. “We know from exhaustive DNA studies that these wolves are genetically distinct from their continental kin,” says McAllister. “They are behaviourally distinct, swimming from island to island and preying on sea animals. They are also morphologically distinct — they are smaller in size and physically different from their mainland counterparts,” says Ian McAllister, an award-winning photographer who has been studying these animals for almost two decades.
McAllister captured the magic of these wolves in breath-taking pictures. As he swam towards them, “the curious canines approached him so closely that he could hear them grunting into his snorkel. He took several frames, then pushed back into deeper water without daring to look up,” writes the bioGraphic.
One could almost call these sea wolves pescatarians – 90 percent of their food comes directly from the ocean, with a fourth of it coming from eating salmon. On top of having distinctive food patterns, sea wolves are also excellent swimmers, with their farthest record being swimming to an archipelago 7.5 miles from the nearest landmass.
(h/t: nationalgeographic)
Along the wild Pacific coast of British Columbia, there lives a population of the sea wolves
“We know from… DNA studies that these wolves are genetically distinct from their continental kin”
“They are behaviourally distinct, swimming from island to island and preying on sea animals”
The wolves “are smaller in size and physically different from their mainland counterparts”
They are excellent swimmers that can do 7.5 miles in a go
90 percent of their diet is seafood as these creatures live off an ocean
Thanks to photographer Ian McAllister, who captured the magnificence of this species…
We can take a better look into their lives in fairy-tale like natural surroundings
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Well son of a gun...the genuine "salty dog"!
Great pun!
i read that article so fastt i really wolfed it down
Yes
Amazing! I have never heard of sea wolves. Beautiful!
Keep it up another few millennia and they'll be seals..
Yup, this is probably similar to how seals and dolphins (and whales) evolved.
And us too. Ever heard of aquatic ape theory? Check it out, it's fascinating!
Tim... just google "Dolphin evolution" or "whale evolution" m8. Evolution simply occurs whenever animals survive longer than others, environmental changes can be in any direction.
@tim major - Mammals did progress from the sea to land. However, once on land, some took to the air (bats) and others eventually returned to the seas. All oceanic mammals were at one time land-dwelling.
You know evolution worked the other way right? It started in the oceans and moved to land?
i have swam with seals and ever since have called them the puppy dogs of the sea!
It is the reverse of what they did
What I've always been wondering is how mamals came to be mamals in the first place in evolution?
Mammals first evolved from reptiles specifically therapsids towards the end of the Triassic period and coexisted with dinosaurs in the Mesozoic period, after the extinction of the dinosaurs they developed into the larger forms we're more familiar with now along with other rodent forms. The colder period that would have occurred after the EE if the popular theory of meteorite is correct would have favoured fur for survival.
Sir..you describe these events is as if you were there to witness all of these happenings occur. You speak with such confidence yet what you present is pure assumption and supposition. About a period so far in the past that no one can check your claims. The creatures themselves that you are referring to as morphing from one form to another are fascinating and diverse. Complex and unique. To this day. Sophisticated and precisely gifted with abilities and features beyond our grasp to understand or imitate. Their bodily features and special abilities are constantly being copied by modern man with limited success. Yet those same individuals, like yourself, assert that all these incredible, complex and unique abilities and features mindlessly developed these incredible bodies and myriad special gifts over eons of time as the need arose. As a car developing snow tires after moving to the arctic. Or developing wipers after being shipped to the northwest after being built in the desert.
Well son of a gun...the genuine "salty dog"!
Great pun!
i read that article so fastt i really wolfed it down
Yes
Amazing! I have never heard of sea wolves. Beautiful!
Keep it up another few millennia and they'll be seals..
Yup, this is probably similar to how seals and dolphins (and whales) evolved.
And us too. Ever heard of aquatic ape theory? Check it out, it's fascinating!
Tim... just google "Dolphin evolution" or "whale evolution" m8. Evolution simply occurs whenever animals survive longer than others, environmental changes can be in any direction.
@tim major - Mammals did progress from the sea to land. However, once on land, some took to the air (bats) and others eventually returned to the seas. All oceanic mammals were at one time land-dwelling.
You know evolution worked the other way right? It started in the oceans and moved to land?
i have swam with seals and ever since have called them the puppy dogs of the sea!
It is the reverse of what they did
What I've always been wondering is how mamals came to be mamals in the first place in evolution?
Mammals first evolved from reptiles specifically therapsids towards the end of the Triassic period and coexisted with dinosaurs in the Mesozoic period, after the extinction of the dinosaurs they developed into the larger forms we're more familiar with now along with other rodent forms. The colder period that would have occurred after the EE if the popular theory of meteorite is correct would have favoured fur for survival.
Sir..you describe these events is as if you were there to witness all of these happenings occur. You speak with such confidence yet what you present is pure assumption and supposition. About a period so far in the past that no one can check your claims. The creatures themselves that you are referring to as morphing from one form to another are fascinating and diverse. Complex and unique. To this day. Sophisticated and precisely gifted with abilities and features beyond our grasp to understand or imitate. Their bodily features and special abilities are constantly being copied by modern man with limited success. Yet those same individuals, like yourself, assert that all these incredible, complex and unique abilities and features mindlessly developed these incredible bodies and myriad special gifts over eons of time as the need arose. As a car developing snow tires after moving to the arctic. Or developing wipers after being shipped to the northwest after being built in the desert.