Explaining sea lion decline

Monday, September 7, 2015 - 06:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The southern sea lion population of the Falkland Islands witnessed a dramatic decline during the last century with numbers falling by 65 per cent between the 1930s and 1960s. It was thought commercial hunting was the main cause for this but now researchers working at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and other institutions have identified another factor.

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