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Alone where seals bark in the mist

Mary-Anne Lea travels to remote coastal regions to study marine animals for insights into conserving their species.
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Mary-Anne Lea at Port Lockroy on expedition

Mary-Anne Lea is a behavioural ecologist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, in Hobart, Australia. Credit: Oli Sansom

This is part of the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, one of the most remote archipelagos in the world. It’s more than 3,000 kilometres from Madagascar, the nearest populated place. When I did my PhD work there studying the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), I travelled with two other researchers to our field site, Cap Noir, by helicopter. None of us, including the pilot, had ever been there.

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Nature 577, 724 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00179-1

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