Sentences with word «crabeater»

[22] The high predation pressure has clear impacts on the demography and life history of crabeater seals, and has likely had an important role in shaping social behaviors, including aggregation of subadults.

The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals allows limited hunting of crabeater seals, leopard seals and Weddell seals.

Young crabeater seals experience significant predation by leopard seals.

Ross and leopard seals tend to be solitary whereas crabeater and Weddell seals breed in colonies.

Penguins pop in and out of the water on their way to forage, while crabeater seals haul out on the ice to rest.

[1] Long scars and sets of parallel scars, visible on the otherwise pale and relatively unmarked pelage of crabeaters, are present on nearly all young seals.

Costa's lab has carried out groundbreaking tracking studies of a wide range of species around the world, including albatrosses, sooty shearwaters, California sea lions, Galapagos sea lions, crabeater seals, Weddell seals, and southern elephant seals.

These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.

I have counted elephant, weddell and crabeater seals, but haven't seen any leopard seals.

Indeed, first - year mortality is exceedingly high, possibly reaching 80 %, and up to 78 % of crabeaters that survive through their first year have injuries and scars from leopard seal attacks.

Seals include the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) and sub-Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) in large numbers, leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), the huge southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), and crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus).

Seals - Six different species of seal live in Antarctic waters - Ross, Weddell, crabeater, leopard, fur and elephant seals.

Unlike many other predators in the region, many of the seals (leopard, crabeater, Ross and Weddell seals) were never directly harvested by humans; so that their population trajectories track the impacts of biological and environmental changes in this ecosystem.