Ingestion of placenta in Hooker's Sea Lion (note) |
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| Authors: | B J Marlow |
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| Institution: | Department of Mammalogy , Australian Museum , 6–8 College Street, Sydney, 2000, N.S.W., Australia |
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| Abstract: | The partial ingestion of the placenta by a newly parturient Hooker's sea lion, Phocarctos hookeri (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. |
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| Keywords: | citrate synthase lactate dehydrogenase metabolic enzymes seasonal variation snapper Pagrus auratus |
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