2 Departamento de Anatomía Comparada, Facultad de Cs. Naturales

• Main Authors: Ro R. Carlini, Sebastián Poljak, Ricardo Casaux, Gustavo Adolfo Daneri, Miguel Gasco
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Key words; Antarctic; South Shetland Islands; southern elephant seal; Mirounga leonina; Duthoit; Duthoit Point; Harmony Point; Nelson Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.5143; http://www.polish.polar.pan.pl/ppr24/ppr24-143.pdf

ABSTRACT: A population survey of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina Linnaeus, 1758) was conducted at Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, during the 2001 breeding season. Two breeding sites were identified, one of which had not been previously re− ported. The largest breeding site was located at Duthoit Point, with a total of 128 females, 111 pups and 7 weanlings distributed in 6 harems along 3 km of coast. The new breeding group was observed at Harmony Point, where 3 females with their pups were found. This is the first re− port on southern elephant seal numbers during the breeding period for the Nelson Island coast.