fur seal


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Related to fur seal: Southern Fur Seal, Northern Fur Seal
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Fur seals, elephant seals and king penguins now abound.
Because at most one fur seal was captured per fishing trip, we modeled its bycatch using a binary response variable with a binomial distribution and a logit link function.
"Our drone is equipped with a high resolution camera so we can systematically and efficiently photograph an entire fur seal colony within a matter of minutes.
The government, recognizing how the end of the fur seal industry was catastrophic for the economy of St.
From the late 18th century the fur seal skins were used in making top-end clothing, especially the neck and cuffs of jackets, and to make hats.
The man was attacked by a fur seal on South Georgia and an RAF helicopter was scrambled from the Falkland Islands.
He was bitten by what is thought to have been a fur seal at Salisbury Plain Beach.
Unhealthy northern fur seal pups have been found stranded on beaches in record numbers, newly weaned and weighing little more than the typical birth weight for the species, experts at the Marine Mammal Center near Sausalito said.
Written in riddling rhyme, the story asks again and again, "Who has the hungriest mouth in the seas of the South?" A journey begins with a cloud of green plankton and travels up the food chain through many marine creatures, visiting and rejecting the seahorse, krill, a petrel (a bird who dives in the ocean), a squid, blue cod, swordfish, a long tail ray, yellow-eyed penguins, barracuda, Hector's dolphin, the brown fur seal, a great white shark, and even a sperm whale.
The term fur seals and sea lions are traditionally used for 15 different species, including the South African fur seal.
The Cape Fur Seal is endemic to the southern African region.
Other topics include the effect of protein levels on growth, early detection of Aleutian disease, influenza on Dutch mink farms, color coat aberrations in northern fur seal, slurry channels to collect urine and feces, and drinking water for young mink kits.