Author:Roux, J-P; Kemper, J; Bartlett, P A; Dyer, B M; Dundee, B LDate:2003African Penguins Spheniscus demersus disappeared from Neglectus Islet probably between 1885 and 1952. Visiting birds were only noted rarely before the mid 1990s, but since 1995 penguin numbers on the islet have increased and breeding was first ...Read more
Author:Kirkman, S P; Oosthuizen W H; Meÿer, M A; Kotze, P G H; Roux, J-P; Underhill, L GDate:2007Trends in the population of Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus were estimated from counts of pups on aerial photographs of colonies taken between 1972 and 2004 to determine trends in the overall population and subpopulations. ...Read more
Author:Ludynia, Katrin; Roux, J-P; Jones, R; Kemper, J; Underhill, LeslieDate:2010The diet of African penguins Spheniscus demersus in Namibia consisted mainly of sardine Sardinops sagax in the 1950s. Since the collapse of pelagic fish stocks in the 1970s, birds fed mainly on bearded (pelagic) goby Sufflogobius bibarbatus, ...Read more
Author:De Bruyn, P J N; Bester, M N; Mecenero, S; Kirkman, S P; Roux, J-P; Klages, N T WDate:2003Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) scats were sampled over a period of eight years (1994–2001) at Atlas and Wolf Bay seal colonies in order to assess the cephalopod component of the diet of these seals and cephalopod diversity ...Read more