New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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INGESTION OF PLACENTA IN HOOKER'S SEA LION (NOTE)

B. J. Marlow

Department of Mammalogy, Australian Museum, 6-8 College Street, Sydney 2000, N.S.W., Australia

Abstract The partial ingestion of the placenta by a newly parturient Hooker's sea lion, Phocarctos hooked (Gray, 1844) (Pinnipedia: Otariidae), was seen, on Enderby Island, Auckland Islands, in December 1972. This atypical behaviour may have resulted from the misdirection towards the placenta of pup protection activity.

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8 (1): 233-8.
(Received for publication 15 October 1973)

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