Mummified and skeletal southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from the Victoria Land Coast, Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Koch, Paul L, Hall, Brenda L, de Bruyn, Mark, Hoelzel, A Rus, Baroni, Carlo, Salvatore, M Cristina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Marine & Freshwater Biology; Zoology; Mirounga leonina; Antarctic; Inexpressible Island; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/417351; https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12581

We report on an accumulation of mummified southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from Inexpressible Island on the Victoria Land Coast (VLC), western Ross Sea, Antarctica. This accumulation is unusual, as elephant seals typically breed and molt on sub-Antarctic islands further north and do not cu...