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Climate change ravaging Antarctic fur seals

2014-07-24 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: A food shortage likely caused by climate change is shrinking a South Antarctic fur seal colony and changing the profile of its surviving members, researchers said Wednesday. South Georgia island's Antarctic fur seal pups have a lower average birth weight, and there are fewer breeding adults -- who hold out longer to reproduce than in the past, according to study results published in the journal Nature. Only the biggest animals survive to adulthood and reproduce. These are classic symptoms...

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