Leonardi, María Soledad https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-7031
Latorre-Estivalis, Jose M.
Crespo, José E.
da Rocha Fernandes, Gabriel
Schwaha, Thomas
Blüml, Valentin
Ebmer, David
Soto, Florencia A.
Olivera, Paula
Lazzari, Claudio R. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3703-0302
Funding for this research was provided by:
American Museum of Natural History (Lerner-Grey Fund for Marine Research 2021)
Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina | Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (PICT 2018-0537, PICT 2020-0400)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (PIBBA 2022)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (PEPS INEE)
PADI Foundation (PADI 2023)
Article History
Received: 22 October 2024
Accepted: 27 May 2025
First Online: 4 June 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: We have complied with all relevant ethical regulations for animal use. All necessary permits for the field campaigns and studies were obtained from Subsecretaría de Turismo y Áreas Protegidas and Dirección de Fauna y Flora Silvestre, Chubut Province, and the Administración de Parques Nacionales, Argentina. Seal pups were manually restrained in order to avoid the use of anaesthesia.