Growth of a fur seal population

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 1977
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bird Island; South Shetland Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Arctocephalus gazella; Callorhinus ursinus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1977.0072; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1977.0072

The Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella is a polygynous Otarid in which a single pup is produced annually by cows over the age of 2 years. Following exploitation to the verge of extinction, a small breeding colony was discovered at Bird Island, South Georgia, in the 1930s. Up to 10000 pups a ye...