Occurrence of vagrant leopard seals, Hydrurga leptonyx, along the South African coast

dc.contributor.authorVinding, Katja
dc.contributor.authorChristiansen, Michael
dc.contributor.authorHofmeyr, G.J. Greg (Gordon John Gregory)
dc.contributor.authorChivell, Wilfred
dc.contributor.authorMcbride, Roy
dc.contributor.authorBester, Marthan Nieuwoudt
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-25T07:17:50Z
dc.date.available2013-09-25T07:17:50Z
dc.date.issued2013-04
dc.description.abstractLeopard seals inhabit the pack-ice rim of Antarctica, and they regularly haul out on Antarctic and Subantarctic islands. Occasionally, vagrants are sighted further north in South America, Australia, New Zealand, and very rarely in southern Africa and Oceania. Here we report on an observation made on the 15th of July 2010 of a single 3-m-long juvenile leopard seal at ‘Die Dam’in theWestern Cape, South Africa (34°45.772’S, 19°42.582’E). We searched historical records and found details of four observations of leopard seals along the coast of South Africa since 1946. All of these sightings were of juvenile animals. The relative scarcity of observations is a likely reflection of the great distance from Antarctica and the Subantarctic to South Africa.en
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dc.description.urihttp://www.sawma.co.za/en
dc.identifier.citationVinding, K, Christiansen, M, Hofmeyr, GJ, Chivell, W, McBride, R & Bester, MN 2013, 'Occurrence of vagrant leopard seals, Hydrurga leptonyx, along the South African coast', South African Journal of Wildlife Research, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 84–86.en
dc.identifier.issn0379-4369
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/31800
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSouthern African Wildlife Management Associationen
dc.rightsSouthern African Wildlife Management Associationen
dc.subjectDistributionen
dc.subjectVagrancyen
dc.subjectHydrurga leptonyx
dc.subject.lcshSeals (Animals)en
dc.subject.lcshLeopard sealen
dc.titleOccurrence of vagrant leopard seals, Hydrurga leptonyx, along the South African coasten
dc.typeArticleen

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