Aggregation of mummified adult crabeater seals (Pinnipedia: Phocidae) in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula: age and sex structure, taphonomy and cause of death

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Negrete, Javier, Soibelzon, Leopoldo Héctor, Soibelzon, Esteban, Márquez, Maria E. I., Loza, Cleopatra Mara, Acosta, Walter, Lusky, Jorge, Pecoraro, Marcelo Ricardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Lobodon Carcinophaga; Marine Mammal Stranding; Seal Disorientation; Seymour Island; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Argentino; Argentina; Seymour; Marambio; Mara; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Crabeater Seals; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/33988

In Antarctica, crabeater seals tend to strand as immature animals with disorientation, due to their inexperience, given as the probable cause. In 2012 and 2013, we examined a group of 80 mummified crabeater seals on Seymour Island (Marambio). The age and gender of 28 seals was determined, and virolo...