What killed the monk seals?

John Harwood ()
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John Harwood: School of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of St Andrews

Nature, 1998, vol. 393, issue 6680, 17-18

Abstract: Over 100 Mediterranean monk seals, members of a population inhabiting the Cap Blanc peninusula in north-west Africa, died mysteriously in a two-month period in 1997. The mass mortality of this endangered species has been attributed to a morbillivirus. But an alternative & or additional & explanation is that the seals died because they had eaten fish contaminated by phycotoxins produced by a bloom of algae. The controversy demonstrates the practical and conceptual problems in investigating unusual cases of mortalities in wildlife.

Date: 1998
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