Southern elephant seals may adjust their diving behavior to stay in prey patches

When southern elephant seals find dense patches of prey, they dive and return to the surface at steeper angles, and are more sinuous at the bottom of a dive, according to a study published December 14, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Yves Le Bras from Centre d’Etude Biologiques de ChizĂ©, and colleagues.