{"id":694248,"date":"2021-06-24T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694248"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:19:51","slug":"elephant-seal-diving-mystery-solved-24-hour-feeding-could-be-a-climate-change-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694248","title":{"rendered":"Elephant seal diving mystery solved: 24-hour feeding could be a climate change sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female elephant seals weigh 350 kg on average, and dive continuously to the ocean&#8217;s mesopelagic zone, about 200 to 1,000 meters deep, to consume their only prey: Small fish that weigh less than 10 grams. Now, an international team of researchers, armed with eight years&#8217; worth of data, may have answered a decades-long question: How do seals maintain their large size on such small prey?&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-elephant-mystery-hour-climate-sentinel.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Elephant seal diving mystery solved: 24-hour feeding could be a climate change sentinel<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female elephant seals weigh 350 kg on average, and dive continuously to the ocean&#8217;s mesopelagic zone, about 200 to 1,000 meters deep, to consume their only prey: Small fish that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}