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Only 6 of the 27 seals tagged at Laysan in February 1963 have been 
subsequently recorded, and only three of these at Laysan, including the 
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male which moved to Pearl and Hermes and back to Laysan. Five of the 
.35 seals tagged in March 1963 on Lisianski have been subsequently re¬ 
ported on that same island* There are 52 subsequent sightings of 32 
different individuals from the 94 seals tagged at Pearl and Hermes in 
March 1963. Two of these sightings represent inter-atoll movements 
described above. The remaining 50 sightings represent intra-atoll move¬ 
ments, in which 22 animals were found on the same islet as the previous 
record, and 28 on different islets. At Kure, where 140 adult group seals 
were observed subsequent to tagging, 1927 returns are for the same atoll. 
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Adult Mortality - Relatively few dead adults were found. On two 
ccasions large sharks with parts of seal in their stomach were caught 
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within a few miles of islands. Two dead adults.-were found on the beach 
ac Laysan, one in the water off Lisianski, and another on the beach at 
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that island, in the spring of 1963. An adult s.keleton was found at Pearl 
and Hermes in March 1963 and another at French Frigate Shoals (23^ 51 N 
Lat, 166^ 1* W Long) in June of that year. Two dead adults were reported 
from Midway in 1964, one the tagged individual mentioned above. Three 
dead adults were found at Kure in two years. All were believed victims 
of vandalism. 
Six individuals with shark inflicted injuries were observed at Kure. 
A seriously wounded adult female was first observed 12 January 1965 
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(Figure 6). The two large wounds, about 30 cm long and at least 4 cm deep, 
passed through blubber and into muscle and viscera. The animal was badly 
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