White Shark Feeds on Seal
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White sharks are large and live in cold water. They need high-calorie food, which they find in seals. Seals swim fast, so sharks grab so suddenly and quickly that the seals hardly know what's hit them. And seabirds hover for the scraps.
Tagging Great White Sharks at Farallones
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TOPP researchers' field work during a day of tagging: they attract the shark with a decoy, tag it and video the shark as it passes by for later identification
Elephant Seal Love
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During the week of Valentine's Day, the love hormones of elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Reserve reach a fever pitch. After a month of not eating while nursing their pups, females are ready to head back to sea to find food. The males need desperately to mate with them before they leave the beach.
T.O.P.P. Predators Animation
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3.5 minute 3D animation describing the mission and successes of the T.O.P.P. program.
Where's Cheddar?
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it's Elephant Seals Homecoming Days 2008, and the E-Seal research team starts looking for the female elephant seals that they put satellite tags on several months ago. Cheddar's one of 20 seals who are returning to the beach. She's been hanging out just offshore for days. E-Seal research team...
Back to the fight: Male elephants seals at Año Nuevo
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Elephant Seals Homecoming Days are here, and it's that time again: claiming and defending beach territory at the start of the mating season. Male elephant seals get bloody, but somebody always runs away in hopes to mate another day. Smart seals.
White Shark at Farallones
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Like most living things, white sharks aren't always hunting and eating. Sometimes they just swim around...peacefully. TOPP researcher Sal Jorgensen caught this one after he attached a satellite tag to it. For more info, go to http://www.topp.org.
Bluefin Tuna Feeding Time
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Feeding young bluefin tuna at the Tuna Research and Conservation Center. http://www.tunaresearch.org
Leatherback Turtle Hatchery
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At a leatherback turtle hatchery in Costa Rica, researchers keep watch over nests buried in the sand. When hatchlings emerge, the researchers make sure they find their way to the ocean and their new lives.
TOPP Tagging Leatherback Turtles
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TOPP, Leatherback Trust researchers, students put satellite tag on leatherback turtle while she's laying eggs on beach in Costa Rica
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