Two behavioural traits promote fine-scale species segregation and moderate hybridisation in a recovering sympatric fur seal population

Table 1 Numbers of A. gazella, A. tropicalisand hybrid individuals with known birth or breeding locations included in all analyses.

Age/sex class	A. gazella	A. tropicalis	Hybrid
Pups	597	173	135
Breeding females
Single year observations	183	24	22
Multiple year observations (no. records)	95 (303)	12 (37)	9 (23)
Territory males
Single year observations	13	10	4
Multiple year observations (no. records)	8 (20)	6 (15)	4 (12)

Pups represent eight complete cohorts from 1992-2003 and adults represent opportunistic sampling across that time period.

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