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===Diet and foraging=== Subantarctic fur seals hunt in shallow waters at night, when [[lanternfish|myctophid]] fish come close to the surface. They also feed on [[squid]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pinnipeds.org/seal-information/species-information-pages/sea-lions-and-fur-seals/subantarctic-fur-seal | title=Subantarctic Fur Seal }}</ref> Other prey can include [[crustacean]]s, and occasionally [[rockhopper penguin]]s and other [[seabird]]s.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.animalia.bio/subantarctic-fur-seal#:~:text=Diet%20and%20Nutrition,Rockhopper%20penguins%20and%20sea%20birds. | title=Subantarctic Fur Seal - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio }}</ref> A study conducted on subantarctic fur seals at Marion Island from 1996 to 2000 concluded that Myctophid fish constituted the largest part of the seals' diet, with fish from the families [[Channichthyidae]], [[Barracudina|Paralepididae]], [[Nototheniidae]], [[Microstomatidae]] and [[Notosudidae]] being eaten in smaller numbers. The size of prey fish ranged from small Myctophids with an average length of 25mm, to large [[Patagonian toothfish]] with an average length of 70 cm.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-013-1380-y | doi=10.1007/s00300-013-1380-y | title=The diet of the subantarctic fur seal Arctocephalus tropicalis at Marion Island | date=2013 | last1=Makhado | first1=A. B. | last2=Bester | first2=M. N. | last3=Somhlaba | first3=S. | last4=Crawford | first4=R. J. M. | journal=Polar Biology | volume=36 | issue=11 | pages=1609β1617 | bibcode=2013PoBio..36.1609M | hdl=2263/37197 | s2cid=253813200 | hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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