Dave Thompson

TL;DR: The 2008 IUCN review of the status of the world's mammals identified marine mammals (IUCN 2008) as disproportionally threatened and data poor compared to their terrestrial counterparts, and their status was noted as a particular concern as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Diet support the suggestion that lactating southern sea lions are mainly benthic foragers, and there was considerable overlap between the diet of sea lions and those of Gentoo and Magellanic penguins, which suggests that sea lions may compete with both species.

TL;DR: It is argued that a pragmatic approach, which considers the effect of ecological complexity while avoiding the indiscriminate addition of detail to mathematical models of competition, is the best way to provide scientific advice on issues that require urgent action.

TL;DR: IRT is a non-invasive method of measuring the relative energy cost of an animal in response to different environments, behaviours and physiological states and has successfully demonstrated that in birds and mammals heat loss is regulated from poorly insulated regions of the body.

TL;DR: The results show that the number of harbour seals in eastern England has not increased since the end of the 2002 phocine distemper epidemic, and there is also evidence of a general decline in most of the large harbour seal colonies around Britain.