Fur seals at Macquarie Island: post-sealing colonisation, trends in abundance and hybridisation of three species

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Goldsworthy, S., McKenzie, J., Page, B., Lancaster, M., Shaughnessy, P., Wynen, L., Robinson, S., Peters, K., Baylis, A., McIntosh, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2009
• Subjects: Fur seals; Arctocephalus spp; Macquarie Island; Population recovery; Hybridisation; Colonisation; Antarctic; McIntosh; New Zealand; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/57045; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-009-0645-y

© Springer-Verlag 2009 Commercial sealers exterminated the original fur seal population at Macquarie Island in the early 1800s. The first breeding record since the sealing era was not reported until March 1955. Three species of fur seal now occur at Macquarie Island, the Antarctic (Arctocephalus gaz...