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Grey Seal Studies on North Rona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

J. Morton Boyd
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For eight years the Nature Conservancy has been studying the grey seals on the island reserve of North Rona to get the necessary facts for a grey seal conservation policy. The programme involves an annual visit to this most remote British island each October to count and mark the pups. The author, who is in charge of the programme, describes the methods used and the results so far, but it is still not known, for instance, whether seals born on North Rona return there to breed, and if not, where they do go.

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Research Article
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Oryx , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , April 1967 , pp. 19 - 24
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Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1967

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