‘I walk a lonely road’: solitary seals have fewer lice
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DOI: 10.1017/s0954102025100175
Abstract: Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) lead solitary lives, mainly associated with sea ice, and they are parasitized by the sucking louse Antarctophthirus ogmorhini, one of the few known marine insects and probably the only group adapted… read more here.
Keywords: lice; road solitary; body condition; condition ... See more keywords