Haulout: Scope of the Term and Procedure for Identification

V. A. Nesterenko^a and I. O. Katin^b

^aInstitute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Division, Russian Academy of Sciences,

pr. Stoletiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok, 690022 Russia;

e-mail: vanester@mail.ru

^bFar Eastern Marine Biosphere State Nature Reserve, ul. Pal’chevskogo 17, Vladivostok, 690041 Russia

Received April 13, 2007

Abstract—Critical review of the use of the term “haulout” is presented, and its interpretation as a topographi-
cally limited area of the supralittoral zone with a known type of its use by a pinniped species is proposed. The
procedure for identification of haulouts is considered. An example of a spotted seal haulout in Peter the Great
Bay of the Sea of Japan was used to show the type of its use by the seals; the scheme of description of a haulout
is presented.

DOI: 10.1134/S1067413609010081

Key words: haulout, locus, pinnipeds, spotted seal.

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