Twin foetuses in the Southern Elephant Seal

• Main Author: Bryden, MM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1966
• Subjects: Royal Society of Tasmania; RST; Van Diemens Land; natural history; science; ecology; taxonomy; botany; zoology; geology; geography; papers & proceedings; Australia; UTAS Library; Angot; Elephant Seal; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/14282/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/14282/1/1966_Bryden_Twin_foetuses_southern_elephant_seal.pdf

The Southern Elephant Seal, Mirounga leonina (L.) generally gives birth to a single pup, but occasional twins have been suspected based on the presence of two pups suckling from one cow (Angot, 1954; Laws, 1956; Carrick, Csordas and Ingham. 1962). Only one almost definite case of twins has been desc...