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The Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius) and the Common Seal Phoca vitulina L. in Troms, northern Norway

open access: yesFauna Norvegica, 1988
Grey and Common Seals in Troms county, northern Norway, were surveyed by boat during the summer 1987. A total of 419 Common Seals were recorded of which 63 or 14% were pups. The breeding season was dated to the second half of June.
Øystein Wiig
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Finescale topographical correlates of behavioural investment in offspring by female grey seals, Halichoerus grypus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Grey seals breed colonially on substrates ranging from ice to rocky or sandy beaches. Clear differences in seal behaviour patterns exist among such broad classes of breeding habitat.
Thomas, C.J.   +9 more
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The diet and feeding ecology of harbour seals around Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Since 2000, there has been a marked decline in the number of harbour seals in some regions around Britain; one possible contributing cause is competition for prey with sympatric grey seals.
Wilson, Lindsay J.
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The Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius) and the Common Seal Phoca vitulina L. in Sogn og Fjordane, western Norway

open access: yesFauna Norvegica, 1987
Grey and Common Seals in Sogn og Fjordane county, western Norway, were surveyed by boat during the summers 1985 and 1986. Thirteen Common Seal localities were recorded with a total count of 369 seals of which 53 or 14.4% were pups.
Øystein Wiig, Torger Øritsland
doaj   +1 more source

First Steps towards the Automated Detection of Underwater Vocalisations of Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) in the Blasket Islands, Southwest Ireland

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
Underwater vocalisations of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were recorded by static acoustic monitoring (SM2M, Wildlife Acoustics) in the vicinity of a colony located at White Strand beach on Great Blasket Island, southwest Ireland during the pre ...
María Pérez Tadeo   +2 more
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The pathology and occurrence of pathogens in Scottish grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Neonatal mortality in grey seals on the Isle of May breeding colony and in a rehabilitation centre were investigated by detailed systematic post-mortem examinations (n=59), on-site bacteriology and advanced molecular diagnostic techniques for specific ...
Baily, Johanna L.
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Distribution and abundance of sealworm (Pseudoterranova decipiens) and other anisakid nematodes in fish and seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: potential importance of climatic conditions

open access: yesNAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2001
Prevalence and abundance of sealworm (Pseudoterranova decipiens) and other anisakid nematodes were determined in a variety of fishes from the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1990 and 1992.
David J Marcogliese
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Status of the Grey Seal [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1961
THE leading article in Nature on “The Grey Seal and British Fisheries”1, by relying on Rae's2 appendix, gives a wrong impression of our knowledge of the status of the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) in British waters both now and in the past. There has in fact at no time been adequate information on which to base a reliable estimate of the total ...
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Foraging strategies in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) : foraging effort and prey selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Swimming speeds and prey selection of temporally captive, wild grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were investigated in relation to prey characteristics in an experimental set-up at the Sea Mammal Research Unit (St Andrews, UK).
Gallon, Susan Louise
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A novel tool to mitigate by-catch mortality of baltic seals in coastal fyke net fishery.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Developing methods to reduce the incidental catch of non-target species is important, as by-catch mortality poses threats especially to large aquatic predators.
Sari M Oksanen   +3 more
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