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A mystery illness is threatening the survival of the endangered Hooker’s sea
lion, which breeds on only two islands 400 kilometres south of New Zealand. This
season 1470 pups have died. The bodies of 45 adult females have also been found,
and more may have died at sea. Tissue samples have been sent to five labs in the
Netherlands and New Zealand to determine the cause.