🦈Leben & Verhalten

The 1975 film increased trophy interest and beach fear. Later decline drivers are fins, bycatch and slow life history. Benchley later argued the fiction had been taken as a brief.

A mid-Pacific patch where California-tagged whites linger. Foraging on midwater squid and fish is the working hypothesis, not a seal colony.

They are regional endotherms. Countercurrent heat exchangers keep muscle and stomach above ambient -- not mammalian homeothermy.

Cape fur seals and elephant seals create predictable prey. Cage tourism and research boats stacked on those same reefs.

A very large female photographed at Guadalupe and later Hawaii -- a media name, not a stock assessment.

Appendix II in 2004. Papers still move; the listing forces permits and data, not a zero quota.