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The real sea wolves
Topic Started: Jun 30 2017, 08:12 AM (929 Views)
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My sister found this article about a population of wolves in Canada that have taken on a more aquatic lifestyle. This isn't the same one but it's the first result I found on Google

These wondrous sea wolves swim for miles and live off the watery wilds
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I remember reading about this once in a blog post. I must say, this is really interesting! Makes me wonder what path this will bring them on...
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I already read on them in a National Geographic article. I still think they are kind of impressive.
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I've heard of these before. I even once made a speculative future evolution concept about them.
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I like how they eat barnacles. Imagine a semiaqiatic mammal with tough grinding teeth that feeds primarily by scraping and crunching barnacles and other rock- encrusting invertebrates.
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I've heard of these before. I even once made a speculative future evolution concept about them.
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They would probably evolve into limb-propelled swimmers, having evolved in cold waters
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Maybe fully aquatic is going
Too far but a weird island form would be cool,maybe after polar bears go extinxt they rake a similar niche?
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Jul 1 2017, 05:30 AM
They would probably evolve into limb-propelled swimmers, having evolved in cold waters
What does evolving in cold waters have to do with any particular swimming style?
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If I am honest I don't see how the extinction of polar bears would open a niche to wolves because bears are in danger because they're too specialized to life in the melting Arctic. Although what these wolves could evolve into is quite interesting.
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They would probably evolve into limb-propelled swimmers, having evolved in cold waters
What does evolving in cold waters have to do with any particular swimming style?

It is speculated that mammals in colder regions would focus on limb paddling in order to reduce their tails and therefore the lost body heat. See pinnipeds, for example.
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Jul 1 2017, 12:01 AM
I like how they eat barnacles. Imagine a semiaqiatic mammal with tough grinding teeth that feeds primarily by scraping and crunching barnacles and other rock- encrusting invertebrates.
Sea mink, sea otters and marine otters all prefer hard shelled invertebrates: it seems to be niche partitioning with whales and seals.
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Impressive, though I still think the real title of 'Wolves of the Sea' go to Orcas. Though looking at this now, I can easily see them following in the footsteps of Polar Bears, as opposed to otters or pinnipeds or especially cetaceans
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Impressive, though I still think the real title of 'Wolves of the Sea' go to Orcas. Though looking at this now, I can easily see them following in the footsteps of Polar Bears, as opposed to otters or pinnipeds or especially cetaceans
But eating barnacles points to early stages of durophagous invertivory. Though yes polar bears have gone another route as amphibious predators of pinnipeds, this is atypical for non-pinniped marine carnivorans. While I'm at it Sardolutra was a fast swimming piscivore but other than polar bears was the exception. It seems difficult for land carnivores to adapt to piscivory at least in the presence of established clades, so there is a bias to invertivory.
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Aug 12 2017, 03:09 PM
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Impressive, though I still think the real title of 'Wolves of the Sea' go to Orcas. Though looking at this now, I can easily see them following in the footsteps of Polar Bears, as opposed to otters or pinnipeds or especially cetaceans
But eating barnacles points to early stages of durophagous invertivory. Though yes polar bears have gone another route as amphibious predators of pinnipeds, this is atypical for non-pinniped marine carnivorans. While I'm at it Sardolutra was a fast swimming piscivore but other than polar bears was the exception. It seems difficult for land carnivores to adapt to piscivory at least in the presence of established clades, so there is a bias to invertivory.
difficult...except where it wasn't. such as early whales.
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