Sea otter specialists, without shame or apology, routinely use a benchmark figure of ‘about 2,000’ for the pre-protection population size of the species at 1911 based on extremely limited evidence yet polar bear specialists refuse to accept a benchmark figure for the 1960s despite the existence of eight published estimates made by experts at the […]

Accepted sea otter population estimate at 1911 as inaccurate as rejected polar bear estimate for 1960s — polarbearscience