ARCTIC Discovery of Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) Breeding on Bogoslof Island, Southeastern

ABSTRACT. A small group of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) including one male with two females, each with a small pup, and two lone males was discovered on Bogoslof Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea on 20 July 1980. This is the first evidence of breeding on Bogoslof, or on any island in the...

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Main Authors: Bering Sea, Denby S. Lloyd, C. Peter Mcroy, Robert H. Day
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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fur seal
Callorhinus ursinus
Steller sea lion
Eumetopias jubatus
Aleutian Islands
Bering Sea
Arctic
Lone
Alaska
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.564.3016
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic34-4-318.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. A small group of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) including one male with two females, each with a small pup, and two lone males was discovered on Bogoslof Island, Alaska in the Bering Sea on 20 July 1980. This is the first evidence of breeding on Bogoslof, or on any island in the eastern Bering Sea other than the Pribilof Islands. We suggest that these fur seals require breeding islands adjacent to the continental shelf break where they are supported by the pelagic food web characteristic of the oceanic and outer shelf domains.

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