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| Photo 1323 from CoastWatch Reports Database |
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| Title: | California Sea Lion with Cookie Cutter Shark bites |
| Description: | This carcass has round circular scars that probably are from Cookie Cutter Sharks (Isistius species). These sharks have large lips that enable them to attach to a prey. Then the animal spins and uses its deep teeth to cut a cookie-cutter shape of tissue out of the prey. We do not know whether the sharks ate this animal before or after the death of the California Sea Lion. A good website with great pictures of the Cookie Cutter Shark is at http://www.shark-pictures.com/viewpic/cookie-cutter-shark-teeth-structure-625.html . |
| Location: | N43.05647 W124.44060 South end of Mile 97 |
| Mile: | 97, Coos County, Bandon SP, between Twomile Cr and Bradley Lake |
| Observer: | D Bilderback - 10/22/2008 8:50 AM FULL REPORT |
| File: | 929,002 bytes, 1650 x 1238 pixels |
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