Foraging behaviour in two Antarctic fur seals colonies with differing population recoveries

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Staniland, Iain J., Morton, Ashley, Robinson, Sarah, Malone, Donald, Forcada, Jaume
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research 2011
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Zoology; Antarctic; Bird Island; Cooper Bay; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Antarctic Krill; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15163/; http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v434/p183-196/

We compared Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella breeding at 2 contrasting sites on South Georgia: one high density colony at Bird Island and one lower density colony at Cooper Bay. The population at Cooper Bay was considerably smaller than that at Bird Island despite ample suitable breeding ar...