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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Halichoerus grypus"”.
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Predictors of Weight Gain in the Rehabilitation of Eastern North Atlantic Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus)
… mammals. With 40% of the world’s grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) population on UK shores, grey seal pups are frequently admitted to rehabilitation centres within their first four weeks – a crucial growth phase – across the UK. Common rehabilitation practices (e.g., change in environment, …
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Assessment of dietary patterns and prey consumption of marine mammals: Grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) in the Baltic Sea
… during the last centuries. The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a good example of how a species can be affected by such changes. In the early 1900s grey seals were common, but hunting and environmental contaminants caused a rapid decline to the verge of extinction in the 1970s. Since the …
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Telomere Dynamics of Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) on Sable Island, Nova Scotia: a Long-Lived Marine Mammal Population Island
… telomere length (rTL) in the grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) of Sable Island, Nova Scotia, a population of long-lived marine mammals approaching carrying capacity. Grey seals exhibited a slow decline in rTL with age, similar to other large and long-lived animals. Meanwhile early life rTL …
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Investigating the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) in grey seals
… reproductive success.<br/><br/>Grey seals (<i>Halichoerus grypus</i>) are a useful sentinel species to study POPs due to their high fat content, the lipophilic nature of POPs and the high trophic level of the food chain they occupy. Plasma samples from grey seal pups were obtained before the …
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Characterising fat tissue structure and function in response to hypoxia in grey seals, an animal model of extreme fat deposition and mobilisation, using novel <i>in vivo</i> and <i>in vitro</i> approaches
… initial;">Given that grey seals (<i>Halichoerus grypus</i>) have a similar fat percentage to obese humans, I hypothesised that oxygen availability in blubber will be affected by increasing tissue depth and adiposity. In chapter 2, I measured partial pressure of oxygen (pO<sub>2</sub>) …