Which consequence results when high background noise interferes with a harbor seal pup's ability to use echolocation for tracking its lactating mother?

💡 Explanation

Reduced echolocation causes inability to efficiently locate its mother, thus experiencing decreased foraging, because masking elevates detection thresholds; therefore pups face starvation rather than improved hearing that call alteration would require.

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