It’s easy to confuse two animals. Believe me, I do it much too often. I’m talking leopard vs. cheetah or emu vs. ostrich. But ...
The Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella, would be hunted to the verge of extinction. The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great numbers for the oil rendered from ...
The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to ...
When I visited in the Antarctic summer month of December with ... Within the decade the area’s fur seal population had collapsed almost completely, ending the industry. Eighty years on and ...
Though other factors may have positively affected plant growth, such as a declining fur seal population ... “This means that the Antarctic landscape and biodiversity could change rapidly.” ...
fur seals, brown skuas, kelp gulls and Antarctic terns. BAS operates two research stations on South Georgia: King Edward Point and Bird Island. As a result of the confirmed cases of HPAI ...