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to [[strikethrough]] bet [[/strikethrough]] obtain a little over 3000 bachelors it was necessary to drive off over 9000 females! The excuse for this is that in as much as the bachelors do not haul out separately any more, it is necessary to drive the females as well; but it must not be over, looked that even in the old [[policy?]] days females were plentiful in the drive, although not to the same extent as now.
Yet, it cannot be emphasized too much: thus far there is no mortality visible among the pups.
Another feature of the above figures is the 
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