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  Steller's Sea Lion - MSN Encarta
Steller's sea lion, Northern sea lion Eumetopias jubatus.
Steller's Sea Lion, largest sea lion, named for Georg Wilhelm Steller, a German naturalist who studied and classified this seal, along with the now-extinct Steller’s sea cow, on an expedition to the Bering Sea in 1741.
With bear-like skulls and sharp teeth, Steller’s sea lions are formidable carnivores.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595594/Steller's_Sea_Lion.html   (812 words)

  
  Georg Wilhelm Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller (March 10, 1709 - November 14, 1746) was a Russian botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer of German origin.
Steller was born in Windsheim, near Nuremberg and studied at the University of Wittenberg.
Steller was appointed as naturalist on Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, to chart the Siberian coast of the Arctic Ocean and search an eastern passage to North America.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/g/ge/georg_wilhelm_steller.html   (352 words)

  
 Georg Wilhelm Steller - Sources
Georg Wilhelm Steller (March 10, 1709 - November 14, 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present-day Alaska.
Steller was born in Windsheim, near Nuremberg and studied at the University of Wittenberg.
Steller was appointed as naturalist on Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, to chart the Siberian coast of the Arctic Ocean and search an eastern passage to North America.
encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/8359/Georg-Wilhelm-Steller.html   (448 words)

  
 Steller’s sea lionInformation Page
Steller’s sea lion, or northern sea lion, is the largest member of the family of eared seals – Otariidae.
Steller’s sea lions range from the northern islands of the Japanese archipelago north to the Bering Straits, and south along the coast to northern California.
Steller’s sea lions are voracious predators, feeding on pollock, flounder, herring, capelin, Pacific cod, salmon, rockfish, sculpins, squid and octopus.
www.nmfs.noaa.gov /speciesid/fish_page/fish35a.html   (217 words)

  
 Georg Wilhelm Steller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Georg Wilhelm Steller (March 10, 1709 - November 14, 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia.
Steller spent the winter in Bolsheretsk, where he helped to organize a local school.
During this time Steller wrote De Bestiis Marinis, describing the fauna of the island, including the Northern Fur Seal, the Sea Otter, Steller's (or Northern) Sea Lion, Steller's Sea Cow, Steller's Eider and Spectacled Cormorant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georg_Steller   (430 words)

  
 Steller's Jay - 09/2004
Although Steller’s specimen was lost when the expedition was later marooned on Bering Island, his field notes describing the bird made it back to St. Petersburg where J. Gmelin used them to formally describe “Steller’s Jay“ in 1788.
Steller’s Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, is a conspicuous, crested jay of western coniferous and mixed-coniferous forests, breeding from Alaska, western Canada, and the United States south through western Mexico to Nicaragua.
Steller’s Jays travel throughout the eastern sections of the Park in loose flocks in August and September, and it is interesting to watch them fly directly to their destination in single-file.
www.friendsofedgewood.org /newsletters/2004/0409/stellersJay.htm   (869 words)

  
 Recently Extinct Animals - Steller's Sea Cow - Hydrodamalis gigas
During the months that Steller and the other survivors of Bering's crew spent on what would later be named Bering Island, Steller was able to gather considerable information on the habits of the Stelller's Sea Cow as well as an extensive set of measurements of various parts of the sea cow's anatomy.
Steller notes that individuals or herds were often found near the mouths of freshwater streams or rivers, which suggests they could not tolerate drinking marine water.
Steller tengeri tehene – Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller, 1751).
home.conceptsfa.nl /~pmaas/rea/stellersseacow.htm   (891 words)

  
 Faculty Author Margritt
Steller's Description of Kamtchatka, is presently being translated by Dr. Engel for publication by the University of Alaska Press.
Everything was of interest to Georg Wilhelm Steller, whom the Russian Academy of Sciences appointed as naturalist to Virus Bering’s second Kamchatka expedition.
Steller’s observations of the economy of Kamchatka and the role of the Cossacks is refreshingly frank.
www.uaa.alaska.edu /bookstore/authors/engel.cfm?renderforprint=1   (308 words)

  
 Introduction — Steller's Jay — Birds of North America Online
Although Steller’s specimen was lost when the expedition was later marooned on Bering Island, his field notes describing the bird made it back to St. Petersburg; J. Gmelin used those notes to formally describe “Steller’s Crow” in 1788 (Mearns and Mearns 1992).
Steller’s Jay shows site-centered dominance, which is thought to be intermediate between territorial and colonial social behavior: Males and females form apparently monogamous, long-term pair bonds, and the mated pair is socially dominant to all other individuals near its nest.
Steller’s Jays are normally nonmigratory, although populations that breed at high elevations typically move to lower elevations during the winter.
bna.birds.cornell.edu /forward/account/Stellers_Jay   (557 words)

  
 The Wonderful World of the Manatee - How did the Steller’s sea cow get its name?
Steller's sea cow is named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.
Steller spent the winter of 1741 on Bering Island with other survivors of the wreck of the Russian ship, the "Saint Peter." While there, he busied himself by collecting and recording detailed observations of the plants, animals and minerals he found on the island.
Sadly, Steller and his crew were also pretty much responsible for the extinction of the Steller’s sea cow.
www.manateeworld.net /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=93&Itemid=25   (175 words)

  
 Steller's Sea Cow - Jessica H.'s Report   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Steller's sea cow was a very weird giant of the northern seas.
Steller didn't name all sea cows after him, only a group.That is because he only found a certain kind of Sea cow.
Georg Wilhelm Steller and his men were very near Bering island when they saw a big group of sea cows.
www.welleby.org /stellers2.htm   (570 words)

  
 Northern Steller's Sea Lions - Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Steller's sea lions are easily distinguished from harbour seals by their size.
This species is named for Georg Wilhelm Steller, a German naturalist who, in the 1740's, became the first European to write about many species of North American flora and fauna, including the Northern sea lion, now known as the Steller's sea lion.
Steller's sea lions are protected under both the U.S. and Canadian endangered species acts, yet their numbers continue to decline, for unknown reasons.
www.seakayaking.com /stellerssealion.htm   (220 words)

  
 Blue Planet: The first modern naturalist - (United Press International)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
From his seat as a favorite of the archbishop, Steller angled to be chosen for a Russian expedition to Siberia under the leadership of the Danish sea captain Vitus Johanssen Bering.
Steller was married to a young gold-digger, the widow of Russia's greatest scientist, Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt.
Georg Steller packed to find Bering, whom he joined in Siberia in January 1739, and went on to become, arguably, the first modern naturalist.
www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20050322-125721-3756r.htm   (1038 words)

  
 San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Steller's Sea Eagle
The Steller’s sea eagle is the heaviest known eagle, averaging 15 to 18 pounds (6.8 to 8 kilograms), and females can be 5 to 10 pounds (2 to 4 kilograms) larger than the males.
Steller’s sea eagles are also known to hunt while flying and will take small mammals, fish, and seabirds by swooping down and catching them with their talons.
In Russia, Steller’s are losing their habitat because of the development of hydroelectric power projects and logging in the forested areas where they nest.
www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-stellers_sea_eagle.html   (1129 words)

  
 Introduction — Steller's Eider — Birds of North America Online
Georg Wilhelm Steller discovered Steller’s Eider during the winter and early spring of 1740–1741 near Kamchatka, Russia, and saw the species again while stranded at the Russian end of the Aleutian chain (Mearns and Mearns 1992).
Steller’s Eider has a range restricted to northern latitudes, where it nests near freshwater tundra ponds but shifts to shallow marine waters once breeding is complete.
In contrast, Steller’s Eider is highly social away from the breeding grounds, where it regularly occurs in large flocks, probably as a defensive adaptation to escape large avian predators.
bna.birds.cornell.edu /bna/species/571/articles/introduction   (690 words)

  
 Steller's Sea Cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, Stock Photos, Pictures, Images, SeaPics.com
What is known about the Steller's sea cow comes from the notes of German naturalist and physician Georg Wilhelm Steller, who was traveling on the ill-fated ship, St. Peter, on explorer Vitus Bering's expedition to the far north on behalf of Russia.
Steller, while stranded on the island with the rest of the crew, spent much time observing the flora and fauna of the island, and took extensive notes about the animals he saw, including the sea cow.
Steller spent much time observing the behavior of the sea cows and noted that they lived in large, gregarious herds, grazing on kelp.
seapics.com /gallery/Mammalia/Sirenia/Dugongidae/Stellers-sea-cow.html   (902 words)

  
 Pictures of the Steller's sea cow|Hydrodamalis gigas facts
Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea.
Steller S Sea Cow Steller's Sea Cow Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an Vitus Bering.
Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, is also in the family Dugongidae, but the species was extirpated by humans in 1768 just 27 years after it's discovery in the North Pacific (Stejneger 1887).
www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Sirenia/Dugongidae/Hydrodamalis/Hydrodamalis-gigas.html   (363 words)

  
 Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller was a 33-year-old naturalist assigned to Vitus Bering’s ship, St. Peter, which sailed from the Russian Kamchatkan Peninsula in early June 1742 to seek the North American mainland.
Evidence of the St. Peter crew's appreciation for Steller's saving many of their lives is found in the fact that most of them signed over a share of the valuable pelts they collected on the voyage to him.
Steller would live only four more years but within that time he wrote extensively about the animals and plants of Siberia and the North Pacific as well as his travels.
www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~insrisg/nature/nw99/steller.html   (674 words)

  
 California Literary Review: Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller, for whom the bird is named, was a man of interest to Patrick O’Brian, particularly after O’Brian had read Steller’s journals.
Georg Wilhelm Steller was born near Nuremberg in 1709, son of a Lutheran choirmaster.
Georg Steller, we can see from his writings, was a stubborn and single-minded man devoted to what he considered his duty as a naturalist.
calitreview.com /2007/12   (4489 words)

  
 Steller Sea Lion Information - Conservation in Action - Vancouver Aquarium
Steller sea lions are stellar, but they’re actually named after Georg Wilhelm Steller, a German naturalist who first classified them.
Steller was shipwrecked on Bering Island, so he had a lot of time to write about the animals that he saw.
Steller sea lions are often confused with California sea lions, but the Stellers are bigger and have lighter fur.
www.vanaqua.org /conservationinaction/sealions/skinny.htm   (293 words)

  
 Georg Wilhelm Steller -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Steller was born in Windsheim, near (A city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)) Nuremberg and studied at the University of (Click link for more info and facts about Wittenberg) Wittenberg.
During this time Steller became the first European naturalist to describe a number of North American plants and animals, including a Blue Jay later named (Click link for more info and facts about Steller's Jay) Steller's Jay.
The standard botanical author abbreviation Steller is applied to ((biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed) species he described.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/georg_wilhelm_steller.htm   (514 words)

  
 Cryptozoology.com
Georg Wilhelm Steller was a reputable naturalist who first discovered and described many of the animals of the north Pacific, Bering Sea and Alaska.
Steller is an important figure in his field and he isn't going to write of something that will discredit his reputation.
Apparently, the words are very close in the 18th C Zoological Latin Steller wrote in, and the assumption was made that Steller meant "shark", and "rooster" was just the result of a spelling error or a mis-reading of Steller's penmanship in the original manuscript.
www.cryptozoology.com /forum/topic_view_thread.php?pid=536034&tid=5   (4488 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Journal of a Voyage With Bering, 1741-1742   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Steller himself is quite the opposite- very steadfast in the journey, and very focused on his work- what the expedition worked hard for ten years to prepare for- to study the area and peoples and flora and fauna etc. beyond the 60th parallel NE of Russia.
The problem is, is that often I feel the Captain's wariness is justified, while Steller would rather just go off and study plants and the indigenes, irrespective (oblivious?) of the dangers of the region and the timeframe before the onset of winter.
Steller himself is quite the opposite- and very focused on his work- what they worked hard for ten years to do- to study the area and peoples and flora and fauna etc. beyond the 60th parallel NE of Russia.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0804714460   (729 words)

  
 The Steller's Sea Cow - ExploreNorth
Steller's sea cows were the largest, and the only cold-water members of the scientific order Sirenia, to which manatees and dugongs also belong.
Feeding on sea grasses (in the case of the Steller's sea cow, primarily kelp), they are the only aquatic herbivorous mammals.
Georg Wilhelm Steller, the naturalist and physician on Bering's expedition, recorded the first, and best, descriptions of the sea cow.
www.explorenorth.com /library/yafeatures/bl-seacow.htm   (798 words)

  
 DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln | De Bestiis Marinis, or, The Beasts of the Sea (1751)
Steller’s classic work, published in Latin in 1751 and in German in 1753, contains the only scientific description from life of the Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), as well as the first scientific descriptions of the fur seal or “sea bear” (Callorhinus ursinus), Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris).
Steller’s sea cow was a sirenian, or manatee, inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.
Steller made his observations as part of Vitus Bering’s second voyage, during which the crew was shipwrecked for 9 months on Bering Island, from November 1741 to August 1742.
digitalcommons.unl.edu /libraryscience/17   (361 words)

  
 Steller's seacow
Although Bering died on the island during the winter of 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller (a German-born naturalist), and about half of the ship's crew survived to rebuilt their ship and return home in 1742, thanks to the meat of the sea cow.
In his writings, Steller described the giant sea cow and its habits, but was vague in his accounts of abundance and distribution.
From Steller's description, these huge herbivores are believed to have numbered around 1500-2000 in the Bering Island and Copper Island areas of the North Pacific (circa 1741).
www.sirenian.org /stellers.html   (744 words)

  
 House Party for Steller Sea Lions- Marine Mammal Research Consortium
Georg Wilhelm Steller published the first scientific paper on Steller sea lions in 1751.
Andrea Hunter and Andrew Trites compiled an annotated bibliography of Steller sea lion literature that identifies the areas of research that have been undertaken to date, and whether or not they address the leading hypotheses proposed to explain the population decline in Alaska.
The total number of Steller sea lion articles published per decade has risen exponentially from 4 in the 1940s to 128 in the 1990s.
www.marinemammal.org /whatsnew/0901/whatsnew_0901_2.php   (365 words)

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