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Lack of functional alpha-lactalbumin prevents involution in Cape fur seals and identifies the protein as an apoptotic milk factor in mammary gland involution
... in fur seal mammary glands due to absence of LALBA in fur seal milk and not due to the pres- ence of a truncated LALBA protein as previously reported ...the fur seal species during evolution and ...
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Feeding kinematics and performance of basal otariid pinnipeds, Steller sea lions and northern fur seals: implications for the evolution of mammalian feeding
... All data were tested for normality and variance equivalence. A full factorial two-way ANOVA was performed to determine significant differences ( α≤ 0.05) of kinematic data during feeding trials for the categorical ...
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Migratory strategies of juvenile northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus): bridging the gap between pups and adults
... Figure 3. Displacement from start point in the first 30 d at sea for migratory northern fur seals of the eastern Pacific stock. Only tracks recording at least 30 d of migration are shown. Left column (a,b) ...
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Skin temperatures during free ranging swimming and diving in antarctic fur seals
... Second, even though the insulation surrounding the thermistor lying against the skin was at least as efficient as the normal fur in the animals, it is clear that some Antarctic fur seals must ...
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Changes in Heard Island glaciers, king penguins and fur seals since 1947
... the fur seals colonising the other islands of the Scotia Ridge (Bonner 1964, ...black fur seal pups, 68 cows and 32 bulls (Budd 1972a, b). The seals were grouped in seven distinct harems, the ...
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Agonistic interactions in female New Zealand fur seals: the functions of conspecific aggression and its implications in spatial population dynamics
... to seals as well. Entanglement in fishing gear is also fatal for many seals, and seal bycatch by fishing vessels is showing an increasing trend (Cawthorn & Wells 2008; as cited in Boren 2010; Augé et ...
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Observations of mortality of fur seals between 1998 and 2005 in Tasmania, Australia
... Australian Fur Seals, Arctocephalus pusillus dori,ftrus Jones, 1925 and New Zealand Fur SealsArctocephalus forsteri Lesson, 1828, occur in Tasmanian ...Australian Fur Seals breed in ...
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The metabolic characteristics of the locomotory muscles of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus), harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella)
... Antarctic fur seals are active swimmers, surfacing for only one or two breaths during transit activity. This is consistent with the high capillary density (higher than those of the other pinniped muscles ...
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The foraging ecology and provisioning strategies of sympatric fur seals Arctocephalus gazella and Arctocephalus tropicalis at Macquarie Island
... This was undertaken by comparing their provisioning strategies at this location, primarily in terms of maternal energy acquisition at sea foraging behaviour and diet and on shore energy [r] ...
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The foraging activity and provisioning strategies of Antarctic fur seals in relation to changes in oceanographic conditions at the Kerguelen Archipelago
... Parameters such as foraging efficiency over a foraging cycle and variability in mean provisioning rates trip duration, were identified as proxies of prey availability within the foraging[r] ...
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Assessing the impact of tourism on New Zealand fur seals (Arctocephalus forsteri)
... The cumulative response of seals at Whakamoa, Kaikoura, and Tonga Island to various distances of Controlled Approaches by motor boats, collected in the 2000/2001 summer breeding season..[r] ...
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Recovery of the fur seal population at Macquarie Island
... original fur seals is unknown, there being no specimens or records other than the sealers' name "upland ...subantarctic fur seal is most likely to have been the original, but it is not impossible ...
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Management of seal tourism in New Zealand – tourism and the New Zealand fur seal in the Bay of Plenty
... 70 Comparing the behaviour of different seal sex/age classes across months allowed us to determine which classes were contributing to the overall trends. Resting behaviour was highest and alert behaviour lowest for adult ...
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Seals, salmon farms and politics : the institutional culture of seal relocation and other measures to counter seal fish farm interactions in South eastern Tasmania
... Protocol for the negative conditioning of Seals using non-lethal seal control devices— DEER THUMPER "BEANBAGS" Polig Context Australian and New Zealand Fur Seals are Protected Wildlife a[r] ...
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Trapping and relocating seals from salmonid fish farms in Tasmania, 1990 2000: was it a success?
... of seals on fish farms, the trapping and relocation of seals at Tasmanian salmonid farms began in ...individual seals had been trapped in 672 capture ...Australian fur seals ...
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Southern elephant seal vagrants in Ecuador: a symptom of La Niña events?
... harbour seals, Phoca vitulina; hooded seal, Cystophora cristata; southern elephants seals, ...Fernandez fur seal, Arctocephalus philippii; Galapagos fur seals; Arctocephalus ...
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Phylogenetic relationships, population genetics and hybridisation of two species of southern fur seal (Arctocephalus spp )
... The study of the Antarctic and subantarctic fur seals in the light of their evolutionary relationships, combined with an investigation into the levels and distribution of genetic variati[r] ...
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Assessing the impacts of infectious disease on reproductive success in New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Veterinary Science in Wildlife Health at Massey University, Palmerston North, Manawatū, New Zealand
... northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus; Lyons et ...northern fur seals (Lyons et ...northern fur seals or 6-8 months in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus; Lyons et ...
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Exploitation of the marine ecosystem in the sub Antarctic: historical impacts and current consequences
... Exploitation also for example fur seals at the South Shetland Isbnds were first exploited in J 819--20, but the smaller stocks there and at the South lslands and the South Sandwich Islan[r] ...
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Causes of mortality and characterisation of Mycobacteriosis in adult New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos Hookeri) at Enderby Island : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Veterinary Science in Wildlife Health at Massey University, Manawatū, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... 28 seals were thought to be the most likely source of infection (Loeffler et ...NZ fur seals on their properties compared to neighbouring non-affected farms (Loeffler et ...
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