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The Marine Apex Predator Research Unit (MAPRU) is a research unit at Nelson Mandela University. Our research focuses on marine top predators as a group addressing questions of fundamental and applied interest by drawing on a range of disciplines.

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You go this way. I go that way. Spatial segregation in Wandering Albatrosses at sea


MAPRU postdoc awarded prestigious CCAMLR Scientific Scholarship


International collaboration produces article on ecosystem assessment of the Southern Ocean.


New study finds a decrease in the abundance of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Plettenberg Bay.