🦤🌐🧪 We characterized neonatal growth patterns in harbour seal pups in the St. Lawrence Estuary. We found that neonatal growth is nonlinear. Males are born heavier than females and large pups at birth tend to gain more mass than small pups bit.ly/meps_761_129
Anne Ju Laberge
@ajlaberge.bsky.social
MSc at @USherbrooke 🦭 Mara Hyena Project - Research Assistant 🐆 Interested in animal behavior, spatial ecology and human-wildlife conflicts and conservation Women in STEM 💪🏼
🚨Paper alert🚨 My second chapter of my master got published last week! Found out more about neonatal growth patterns, sexual dimorphism and compensatory growth in harbour seal pups 🦭 It's here —> www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
Neonatal growth patterns, sexual dimorphism and compensatory growth in harbour seal pups
Juvenile survival, a fundamental parameter in the population dynamics of long-lived species, is often tightly linked to early-life body growth. Here, based on repeated mass measurements on 555...
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🚨 Paper alert 🚨 My first MSc chapter is finally published! If you wonder how we accurately and precisely estimate age and birthdates of harbour seal pups, read this very cool paper we did! 🦭 Stay tuned for chapter 2! wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
TWS Journals
We used an umbilicus-based method to estimate reliable birth dates in a wild population of harbour seals living in the St. Lawrence estuary between 1998 and 2023. We show that our method is accurate ...
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MSc = done ✅️ So grateful for these couple past years of learning, meeting people, catching seals and making fond memories! 🦭 I am immensely thankful for my supervisor Pre. Fanie Pelletier, and co-supervisor Dr. Xavier Bordeleau! Now, what's next ?