Distribution, Abundance and Biology of the Crabeater Seal Lobodon Carcinop Hagus in the Pack Ice Region of the Australian Antarctic Territory

• Other Authors: SOUTHWELL, COLIN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SOUTHWELL, COLIN (processor), KERRY, KNOWLES (processor), SHAUGHNESSY, PETER (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; Lobodon Carcinophagus; Crabeater Seal; Lactation period; Pup growth rate; Aircraft; HELICOPTER; FIELD SURVEYS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Territory; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Crabeater Seals; Enderby Land; Lobodon carcinophagus; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/distribution-abundance-biology-antarctic-territory/700149; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_378; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 378 See the link below for public details on this project. From the abstract of the referenced paper: Observations on five groups of crabeater seals were conducted between 29 October and 17 November 1985 in the Antarctic pack ice near 66 degrees S 50 degrees E, off Enderby Land. The pups studied were born in the last half of October. Two of them increased in weight at a rate of approximately 4.2kg per day. The lactation period was 2-3 weeks and thus is one of the breifest among pinnipeds. Pups decreased in weight after weaning. The only pup visited after it left the natal floe must have been feeding, as it had only lost 2kg in a 10-day period during which it moved 13 km. Molt of lanugo appeared to be influenced by more a pups weight than by whether or not it was weaned.