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The leopard seal is a top-order predator in … the Southern Ocean ecosystem and preys on a wide … variety of vertebrate species including seals and penguins. We assessed the use of hairs found in leopard … seal scats to identify the species of pinniped consumed.
In order to assess seasonal and spatial changes in diet, the ä15N and ä13C signatures of … vibrissae from leopard seals Hydrurga leptonyx obtained from Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica, were … compared with those of a captive seal on a known diet. Using the isotopic signatures of known prey…
Abstract Mixing models are used to determine diets … where the number of prey items are greater than one, however, the limitation of the linear mixing method is … the lack of a unique solution when the number of potential … sources is greater than the number (n) of isotopic … signatures +1.
Abstract The diet of male and female leopard seals … (Hydrurga leptonyx) was investigated in Prydz Bay, Eastern Antarctica. A total of 70 scats, 1 regurgitate and … 3 stomach contents were collected, during the austral … summer, between November 1999 and March 2002.