For 30 years, Alaska’s northern fur seal population has not increased. But the ocean mammals are appearing in growing numbers in one unlikely place: a small island that forms the tip of an active undersea volcano. Bogoslof Island is distant and unpopulated. It sits in the eastern Bering Sea. Openings on the ground there release mud, steam and sulfurous gases. But northern fur seals find the island to be a good place for giving birth and raising their young. Tom Gelatt leads a group at the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. His group studies northern fur seals. Gelatt calls the population growth on Bogoslof extraordinary. Most of the world’s 1.1 million northern fur seals live in the eastern Bering Sea area. The animals live in the ocean from November to June and return to land in summer, when they breed and nurse pups.
Title: Northern Fur Seal Population Growing in Unlikely Place
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3734/fur.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Northern Fur Seal Population Growing in Unlikely Place' data-article-id='4215'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9208'>For 30 years, Alaska’s northern fur seal population has not increased.</span> <span data-start-time='9208' data-end-time='16667'>But the ocean mammals are appearing in growing numbers in one unlikely place:</span> <span data-start-time='16667' data-end-time='23958'>a small island that forms the tip of an active undersea volcano.</span> <span data-start-time='23958' data-end-time='29375'>Bogoslof Island is distant and unpopulated.</span> <span data-start-time='29375' data-end-time='33188'>It sits in the eastern Bering Sea.</span> <span data-start-time='33188' data-end-time='40729'>Openings on the ground there release mud, steam and sulfurous gases.</span> <span data-start-time='40729' data-end-time='49542'>But northern fur seals find the island to be a good place for giving birth and raising their young.</span> <span data-start-time='49542' data-end-time='59563'>Tom Gelatt leads a group at the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA.</span> <span data-start-time='59563' data-end-time='63000'>His group studies northern fur seals.</span> <span data-start-time='63000' data-end-time='69271'>Gelatt calls the population growth on Bogoslof extraordinary.</span> <span data-start-time='69271' data-end-time='78417'>Most of the world’s 1.1 million northern fur seals live in the eastern Bering Sea area.</span> <span data-start-time='78417' data-end-time='88979'>The animals live in the ocean from November to June and return to land in summer, when they breed and nurse pups.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3734/fur.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=13854 data-hint-location='63000' style='display:none;'><div class='question' 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