Fur Seals : : Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea /

Fur Seals : : Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea / / ed. by Gerald L. Kooyman, Roger L. Gentry.

The contributors to this volume have accomplished a breakthrough in our ability to collect data on ocean-dwelling mammals. In the first large-scale comparison of fur seals, they have employed quantitative methods and a special instrument called a Time-Depth-Recorder to study the strategies used by f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Costa, D. P.,
Croxall, J. P.,
David, J.H.M.,
Davis, R. W.,
Doidge, D. W.,
Gent, R. L.,
Gentry, R. L.,
Goe, M. E.,
Holt, J. R.,
Kooyman, G. L.,
Majluf, P.,
McCann, T. S.,
Rand, R. W.,
Sanchez-Griñan, M.,
Trillmich, F.,
HerausgeberIn:
Gentry, Roger L.,
Kooyman, Gerald L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1986
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 64
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Methods of Dive Analysis
  • Chapter 3. Attendance Behavior of Northern Fur Seals
  • Chapter 4. Feeding and Diving Behavior of Northern Fur Seals
  • Chapter 5. Free-Ranging Energetics of Northern Fur Seals
  • Chapter 6. Attendance Behavior of Antarctic Fur Seals
  • Chapter 7. Diving Behavior of Antarctic Fur Seals
  • Chapter 8. Attendance Behavior of South African Fur Seals
  • Chapter 9. Diving Behavior of South African Fur Seals
  • Chapter 10. Attendance and Diving Behavior of South American Fur Seals during El Niño in 1983
  • Chapter 11. Attendance Behavior of Galapagos Fur Seals
  • Chapter 12. Diving Behavior of Galapagos Fur Seals
  • Chapter 13. Attendance Behavior of Galapagos Sea Lions
  • Chapter 14. Diving Behavior of Galapagos Sea Lions
  • Chapter 15. Synthesis and Conclusions
  • Literature Cited
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index
  • Backmatter

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