Table 1.

Dates when counts were undertaken and the number of female elephant seals equipped with GPS loggers, along with the mean number of days of observation

Date	Transects (days)	Quadrats (days)		Good weather (days)	Bad weather (days)	Females captured [equipped with GPS]	Observation (days)
		Q	Q′
9 January to 23 February 2012	30	14	/	/	/	15 [7]	5.87 ± 3.31
23 December 2013 to 3 March 2014	40	33	16	5	7	26 [11]	5.04 ± 2.97
24 December 2014 to 14 January 2015	11	12	11	8	2	7 [2]	1.29 ± 0.49
23 January to 26 February 2016	18	18	18	5	9	12 [3]	4.5 ± 1.57