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Male grey seal commits fatal sexual interaction with adult female harbour seals in the German Wadden Sea

Males of several seal species are known to show aggressive copulating behaviour, which can lead to injuries to or suffocation of females. In the North Sea, grey seal predation on harbour seals including sexual harassment is documented and represents violent interspecific interaction. In this case se...

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Autores principales: Rohner, Simon, Hülskötter, Kirsten, Gross, Stephanie, Wohlsein, Peter, Abdulmawjood, Amir, Plötz, Madeleine, Verspohl, Jutta, Haas, Ludwig, Siebert, Ursula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7426965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32792537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69986-w