Study reveals the role played by a commercial exploitation too widespread, including the sale of specimens to aquariums until a few years ago, in the sustained decline of the colony of sea lions of the island of Lobos.In 1947, Uruguayan zoologist Carlos Vaz Ferreira traveled to the Pribilof Islands, in Alaska, to observe the commercial exploitation of the sea lions of the north (Callorhinus ursinus). Vaz Ferreira returned to Uruguay from that tr…
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Study reveals the role played by a commercial exploitation too widespread, including the sale of specimens to aquariums until a few years ago, in the sustained decline of the colony of sea lions of the island of Lobos.In 1947, Uruguayan zoologist Carlos Vaz Ferreira traveled to the Pribilof Islands, in Alaska, to observe the commercial exploitation of the sea lions of the north (Callorhinus ursinus). Vaz Ferreira returned to Uruguay from that tr…