Sub-Antarctic fur seals depredate northern rockhopper penguins at Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Bester, Marthan Nieuwoudt, Dilley, B.J., Davies, D., Glass, T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2021
• Subjects: Predation risk; Nightingale Island; South Atlantic Ocean; Northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi); Sub-Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis); Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Austral; Indian; Tristan; Gough; Amsterdam Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; Polar Biology; Rockhopper penguin
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78087; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02688-1

The most plausible hypothesis for declining population trends of some marine top predators at the northern extent of their breeding ranges in the Southern Ocean is that it results from environmental change. Sub-Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus tropicalis are opportunistic and pelagic foragers that...