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Thirty years of Australian marine bioacoustics and the Cummings Connection. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2000 (Ref: 14739)
Category 3: Conference paper

Marine bioacoustics research in Australian waters has developed for more than 30 years, and has revealed a wide diversity of … sounds and acoustic environments. The number of researchers and the complexity of the experiments has increased over the years.

Uncommon or cryptic? Challenges in estimating leopard seal abundance by conventional but state-of-the-art methods Deep-Sea Research 1, 2008 (Ref: 13311)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The method traditionally used to estimate pack-ice seal abundance employs sighting surveys from ships or aircraft to … estimate the number of seals hauled out on the ice, combined with studies of haul-out behaviour to estimate the proportion … of time spent on the ice.

Identification of hairs found in leopard seal ( Hydrurga leptonyx ) scats Polar Biology, 2007 (Ref: 12871)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

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.

Urinary cortisol sampling: A non-invasive technique for examing cortisol concentrations in the Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddellii Zoo Biology, 2006 (Ref: 12874)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This study investigated the feasibility and validity of using non-invasively … collected ice urine samples to measure cortisol concentrations in Weddell seals. Radio-immunoassays were used to determine urinary cortisol, and spectrophotometric … assay was used to determine creatinine concentrations.

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