Feeding habits of harp and hooded seals in Greenland waters
NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2000 Results of stomach contents analyses of harp and hooded seals collected in West Greenland waters in the period 1986-1993 are reviewed, and compared with published data and circumstantial information from local hunters.
Finn O Kapel
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Phocine Distemper Virus: Current Knowledge and Future Directions [PDF]
Viruses, 2014 Phocine distemper virus (PDV) was first recognized in 1988 following a massive epidemic in harbor and grey seals in north-western Europe. Since then, the epidemiology of infection in North Atlantic and Arctic pinnipeds has been investigated.
Pádraig J. Duignan +29 more
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Factors affecting harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) strandings in the Northwest Atlantic. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The effects of climate change on high latitude regions are becoming increasingly evident, particularly in the rapid decline of sea ice cover in the Arctic.
Brianne K Soulen +3 more
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The influence of the optical characteristics of the environment on colour vision of earless seals [PDF]
Vestnik MGTU, 2017 The results of studying the influence of optical characteristics of sea water on the ability of earless seals to differentiate tablets of blue and red colours have been presented.
Pakhomov M. V. +2 more
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Pup production of Harp Seals in the Northwest Atlantic in 2017 during a time of ecosystem change
NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2022 Photographic and visual aerial surveys were conducted off Newfoundland and Labrador (”the Front”), and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (“Gulf”) in March 2017 to estimate pup production of Northwest Atlantic harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus ...
Garry Stenson +7 more
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NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2022 Pup production of the Greenland Sea populations of harp (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and hooded (Cystophora cristata) seals were estimated based upon aerial surveys in March 2018.
Martin Biuw +7 more
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Food and Waterborne Parasitology, 2019 Zoonotic parasites of seals that are harvested for food may pose a health risk when seal meat or organ tissues of infected animals are eaten raw or undercooked. In this study, 124 tissue samples from 81 seals, comprising four species, were collected from
Sarah J. Reiling +5 more
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Investigating annual diving behaviour by Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) within the Northwest Atlantic Ocean [PDF]
, 2013 This work was funded through the Atlantic Seal Research Programme, International Governance Programme (DFO), the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, and a CFI grant to YFW. The authors also acknowledge the support of the Marine Alliance for Science
Skern-Mauritzen Mette +32 more
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In search of virus carriers of the 1988 and 2002 phocine distemper virus outbreaks in European harbour seals [PDF]
, 2008 European harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) populations decreased substantially during the phocine distemper virus (PDV) outbreaks of 1988 and 2002. Different hypotheses have stated that various seals and terrestrial carnivore species might be the source of ...
Sonne, C. +10 more
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Foraging strategies in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) : foraging effort and prey selection [PDF]
, 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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