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Summer diving and haul-out behavior of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) near mesopredator breeding colonies at Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula

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Krause, Douglas J., Goebel, Michael E., Marshall, Greg J., Abernathy, Kyler (2016): Summer diving and haul-out behavior of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) near mesopredator breeding colonies at Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Mammal Science 32 (3): 839-867, DOI: 10.1111/mms.12309, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12309

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