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COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

NOTE TO READERS

PLATES

FIGURES

EDITORS’ PREFACE

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

1. The Pinnipedia

2. The grey seal – introductory

3. The grey seal – age determination, longevity and maturity

4. The grey seal – reproduction

5. The grey seal – annual moult and spring behaviour

6. The grey seal – feeding and food; pre-breeding assemblages

7. The grey seal – the breeding rookery: cow and pup

8. The grey seal – the breeding rookery: bulls, territory and mating

9. The grey seal – moulters, dispersal, marking experiments and later movements

10. The grey seal – population dynamics, mortality and pregnancy rates

11. The common seal – introductory

12. The common seal – reproduction, pup, moulting, food and numbers

13. Other species of pinnipede

14. Conservation of British seals

PICTURE SECTION

APPENDICES: A Classification of Pinnipedia

B Breeding rookeries of grey seals

C Life-tables for grey seal cows and bulls

D Farne Island seal counts, 1956–1968

E Research and world conservation of seals

FOOTNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER