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What does subantarctic mean?

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  1. Pertaining to a region in the Southern Hemisphere immediately north of Antarctica and covering the many islands of the southern parts of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, which are north of the Antarctic Convergence.
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Lactating subantarctic fur seals can promote similar growth rate and body mass at weaning to their pups in different ways, i.e., using different provisioning patterns.
This indicates that pup mass changes can be used to calculate maternal attendance pattern and subantarctic fur seal pups lose mass continuously when fasting.
Irrespective of the pattern of colonization, flightlessness probably evolved separately in the subantarctic teals.
With temperatures ranging from subtropical to subantarctic, New Zealand's waters host an impressive range of species, he says.
The Auckland Island Teal and Campbell Island Teal occur only on their respective subantarctic island groups.
The critical summer feeding habitat of the species is in the subarctic and subantarctic.

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