Fig 2. Growth of 36 individual Antarctic fur seal pups (n = 23 for males and n = 13 for females) from birth to weaning on Pointe Suzanne colony, Kerguelen Island in the breeding season 2012.

Twenty of these pups belonged to mothers we tracked at sea. Dashed lines represent Von Bertalanffy growth curves fitted over individual pups during the nursing season and the solid lines are the average growth curve for all the pup of each sex. Plotting symbols are unique to individual pups).