ANTARCTIC SEALS Research Methods and Techniques

This excellent manual of research methods on Antarctic seals (which has application to all seal species) has been a long time in gestation, originating it did from the terms of reference of the SCAR Group of Specialists on Seals which was formally constituted in 1974. The necessity of standardizing research methods stemmed from the international nature of the SCAR Group and from the various n national Antarctic p programmes, when it became clear that if results from different programmes were to be comparable then the data must be collected according to agreed methods. Furthermore, because of manpower shortages, in experienced workers were often asked to collect information on pinnipeds in the Antarctic and it was therefore necessary to instruct them on how this should be done.