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Record #52458:

Adélie penguins and leopard seals: illustrations of predation - history, legend and fact / Elliot Watson Dawson.

Title: Adélie penguins and leopard seals: illustrations of predation - history, legend and fact / Elliot Watson Dawson.
Author(s): Dawson, Elliot Watson.
Date: 1974.
In: Notornis. (1974.), Vol. 21(1) (1974)
Abstract: Critical analysis of published records with useful disposal of myths. Observations at Cape Adare while author was a member of the joint New Zealand-Balleny Islands expedition aboard USS Glacier in 1965 indicates that leopard seal predation has a negligible effect on penguin population. Supplementary note on Pygoscelis adeliae in Notornis, Vol.21, Part 4, 1974, p.379-381.
Notes:

Notornis. Vol. 21(1) :36-69 (1974).

Keywords: 591.13 -- Animal digestion and inanition.
598.45 -- Penguins: Pygoscelis adeliae.
599.745.3 -- Phocidae: Hydrurga leptonyx.
H1 -- Zoology: general.
SPRI record no.: 52458

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