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August 12, 2001

Grazing Sea Lions, Ecuador, 1999

Photograph by David Doubilet

"Near the Plazas Islands juvenile sea lions scare up inch-long [2.5-centimeter-long] shrimps by furrowing the sandy bottom with their lower jaws. Before El Niño ends, many sea lions will starve, unable to follow their principal prey, lantern fish and squid, as they move down into colder waters. But now in 1999 the warm, clear nightmare is over, and the sea has turned again from fallow to full."

—From "Galápagos Underwater," April 1999, National Geographic magazine