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THE recent illegal slaughter of grey seals in the supposed interests of the Cornish fishermen directs attention to the diet of seals. On what do they usually feed? On fish, as the fishermen and their friends assert, or on some of the other creatures which abound in the waters of the ocean?
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GRAY, R. Diet of Seals. Nature 135, 473 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135473a0
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