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Scientists Mount Cameras On Endangered Sea Lions To Map Australia's Ocean Floor


An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Australian sea lions glide and dart through underwater tunnels, over seagrass beds and rocky reefs, searching for a meal and dancing with dolphins around a giant bait ball of fish -- all the action captured by a camera stuck on their back. "...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Australian sea lions glide and dart through underwater tunnels, over seagrass beds and rocky reefs, searching for a meal and dancing with dolphins around a giant bait ball of fish -- all the action captured by a camera stuck on their back. Goldsworthy's "slow TV" is the result of new efforts to employ the sea lions to map the ocean floor-- and their own habitats -- by sticking cameras with satellite tracking to their backs. The sea lions have mapped rocky reefs and seagrass meadows along the continental shelf, and shown humans the places that are important to them.

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