Table 1 Deployment year, site, and date, sample size (M/F: males/females), mean body mass (standard deviation, range), and mean satellite transmission duration (standard deviation, range) of juvenile northern fur seals with instruments transmitting >4 d.

From: Migratory strategies of juvenile northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus): bridging the gap between pups and adults

Year

Deployment site

Deployment date

Juvenile

M/F

Body mass

male (kg)

Body mass

female (kg)

Deployment duration (days)

2006

PRB (SP)

30 Sept–13 Oct

6/13

15.5 (1.2, 13.6–17.0)

15.4 (1.7, 13.2–19.6)

170.3 (67.6, 27.1–277.2)

BG

4 Oct–7 Oct

5/5

16.8 (4.0, 12.2–21.8)

15.8 (3.7, 11.0–20.2)

188.2 (65.4, 26.8–244.7)

2007

PRB (SP)

5 Oct–15 Oct

16/17

17.5 (2.1, 14.6–23.2)

16.3 (1.5, 13.8–18.8)

169.9 (87.6, 30.6–308.1)

SM

22 Sept

2/4

18.9 (0.1, 18.8–19.0)

22.5 (2.3, 19.2–24.4)

124.9 (66.0, 29.1–212.1)

  1. Tags were deployed on St. Paul (SP) on the Pribilof Islands (PRB), Bogoslof Island (BG) and San Miguel Island (SM).
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