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Adoptive Suckling in the Grey Seal

Nature volume 217, pages 762–763 (1968)Cite this article

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ALMOST all accounts of the natural history of the grey seal Halichoerus grypus give the impression that a cow invariably seeks and feeds only her own pup among the dozens or hundreds in a breeding colony which may be at an equivalent stage of development as her pup. Normal feeding fidelity may be represented thus

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SMITH, E. Adoptive Suckling in the Grey Seal. Nature 217, 762–763 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217762a0

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