{"id":5689,"date":"2017-07-05T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:18:38","slug":"female-steller-sea-lions-breed-near-their-birthplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/female-steller-sea-lions-breed-near-their-birthplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Steller sea lions breed near their birthplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5690\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5690\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5690\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/142001_web.jpg\" alt=\"Steller sea lions (Image via David B. Ledig\/USFWS)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/142001_web.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/142001_web-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steller sea lions <em>(Image via David B. Ledig\/USFWS)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steller sea lions keep their family close and their breeding spots even closer, as a new study suggests that females choose to breed near the rookery where they themselves were born. Researchers gathered tracker data from 269 female sea lions over the course of 14 years to see how often the sea lions switched rookeries, or breeding colonies. Their findings showed that less than 3% of sea lions bred at a different rookery from where they were born. This information emphasizes the importance of habitat preservation for Steller sea lion. This is crucial for efforts to conserve the species, which is currently assigned the &#8220;Special Concern&#8221; status in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelly K. Hastings, Lauri A. Jemison, Grey W. Pendleton, Kimberly L. Raum-Suryan, Kenneth W. Pitcher<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Hastings, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, US, Email: kelly.hastings@alaska.gov<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0176840\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>PLOS One<\/em> on June 7, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steller sea lions keep their family close and their breeding spots even closer, as a new study suggests that females choose to breed near the rookery where they themselves were born. Researchers gathered tracker data from 269 female sea lions over the course of 14 years to see how often the sea lions switched rookeries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1446,3030,3029,3031],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-breeding","tag-population-genetics","tag-sea-lions","tag-steller-sea-lion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/142001_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1tL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}