If you take a healthy seal that's lived in captivity, not seen any other seal or fish or human swim, and place it near a pool of water, and nothing else, will it learn to swim by itself?

I was hoping a professional could answer this question because, I got a few conflicting results online.

How different is it to teach a human being to swim, versus a seal?

I’m currently finishing up for my associates in biology to hopefully move on to my B.S. in Marine Biology. I was wondering what the sub genres of Marine Biology specifically consist of. I’ve researched some but a lot of sources are either very vague or don’t list them all.

Don’t laugh but I’m particularly interested in healing marine animals (like in dolphin tale) and caring for them on a higher scale. I’ve seen rescue is a choice and also veterinarian but have also heard of “caregivers”. I don’t know what I should be exactly going for when I get to State. Should I be going for the title of B.S. in Marine Biology? What and when should I know which sub genre I want to go into?

Hii so I'm 23F and for context I'm in a developing country (India) and I did my undergrad in biomedical sciences with a specialization in biotechnology. I didn't do amazing in my undergrad and only caught up well during my final year bc that's when I got really interested in marine biology. I watched anlot of documentaries related to it and decided that I would do my master's after 2 years (due to lack of external support and financial situation). I almost got a job at my city's aquarium but I couldn't go because my grandmother passed away and since the job involved relocating i had to pass on it. After that I had no luck with marine bio-related or lab-related science jobs so I had to switch to content writing and marketing. But now it's been two years and I can't take it well that I have to work another day without doing marine bio research. I miss lab, I miss maths and I miss science but I'm not exactly the best in any of them. Also I've made a lot of mistakes in the last few years that I am beginning to have doubts that i can do anything at all.

I'm very lost. My only option now is to pass an exam so that I can study at a state nearby. But I want to get out of here for my PhD. What are the things I can do remotely to build my profile while I'm still here?

Hello! Currently I’m in my first year of community college doing my gen eds. After two years, I’m planning on transferring to a university. I’m in Illinois right now, and my advisor told me that I’ll probably need to move out of state, which is fine. Recently, I was told a good way to narrow down school options is to look at the professors and their research.

What started my interest and passion in marine biology was Shin Kubota’s research on the immortal jellyfish. I spent much of my time in high school reading translated versions of his research. I’ve always wanted to pursue graduate school, but still, the idea of getting to work anywhere near that always felt like a pipe dream.

This is still a long ways away, but would that be a possibility? Does anyone have experience going to school overseas, specifically Kyoto University? Could I do my undergrad in the United States, and grad overseas? Is that super difficult? Or is it just totally an unrealistic ask?

Other than that, I’ve also been looking into the university of Alaska, Fairbanks. Has anyone gone there before, and if so, would you say it was a good experience?

The character is supposed to be a marine biologist. Obviously the monster killed the whale and there’s a giant single bite wound yadda yadda but her comment about orcas not going after healthy adults made me wonder if it’s really so uncommon. Most predators do go for young, old, or sick individuals, but is it really so rare for orcas to take down a healthy adult blue?

I read some articles about how some species of octopus have been observed participating in social behavior. Is this a new thing (evolutionarily)?

Jellyfish eat things, right?

Do they get fat or skinny?

What does a fat or skinny jellyfish look like?

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Me and my girlfriend went to the beach recently and had the idea to make little jars with sand, shells, and ocean water in them. Once I got home I noticed there were little creatures zooming around inside it. It looks like they swim backwards and have some little gyrating fins or something.

Here’s a video: https://imgur.com/a/X5nT733

Ok so I was watching free Willy again I know guilty pleasure. And in the close ups of Willy swimming around and under his pectoral fins the skin is bubbled like it’s scarred. But when I tried googling what that was or what it was called I found nothing. So! Marine biologist what is an orca armpit called and why does the skin bubble like that or is that a movie cgi thing and I was properly bamboozled?

Since we moved to florida my daughter has shown interest in Marine biology and sea life. Anyone know of any places that let kids do some volunteer work she is 12 and i will be with her also. We are in the orlando area. Thank you

I realised it only today, that NASA sent over 2000 jellyfish (polyps) to space as a part of Spacelab mission in 90s. Probably because they have closed life cycle, or some adult jellyfish can metamorphose back into planula and continue the cycle - which basically makes it immortal. Alsso because they have graviceptors (statoliths) that give information about direction or gravity forces.

They got them back and even though the differences were not so big, jellyfish had a hard time adjusting to the conditions on Earth. I feel so dumb for not knowing something like this in marine world so in case you didn't either... now you do! very cool :)

My daughter has wanted to be a marine biologist since she was five years old. She's turning 17 next week and has been looking into colleges that offer marine biology. I want to continue to be as encouraging and helpful as I can but I'm a fish out of water here. (My background is in information technology and systems engineering, her mother is an architect.) Her academic record is exceptional, she is involved in a couple of school groups, has several extracurricular activities, and has no noteworthy behavioral issues. What can I do to help her achieve her goal and generally prepare for adulthood as a marine biologist?

We live in New Jersey so Rutgers is on her list of possibilities. She hasn't decided on any particular college yet but she is pretty strongly against anywhere in Florida mainly because of Florida's political environment and all that entails. We are aware that Florida has some very good marine biology colleges but this is ultimately her call. When we google "best colleges for marine biology" we get a bunch of lists with very few overlapping results so we're a little confused there.

She hasn't decided on a specialty, but she does enjoy sharks. A couple of years ago she was picked to join a joint 4H/Rutgers program where she spent several days aboard a working research ship to catch, study, tag, and release sharks. She did very well there and enjoyed the experience immensely, and was invited to go back last year but couldn't due to having been selected for a foreign exchange program (she went to Germany for a few weeks) at the same time the program would have been happening.

Among the things I'm wondering...

Should we be looking at specific schools and/or programs? Does she need to select a specialty, and if so when should that selection be made? Should she be aiming for a bachelor, masters, doctorate? What will her employment opportunities be like once she finishes college? Are there opportunities for her to work in the field as she is going to college for it, and if so, where should she be looking and what are the criteria for that?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

I wanted to know how helpful a masters is out here. I'm about to graduate and am thinking of making it a BS/MS at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a PI I've already been working for (and really like).

They were being marketed as megaladon tooth.