A Review of the Population Ecology of the Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga Angustirostris)
Title | A Review of the Population Ecology of the Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga Angustirostris) PDF eBook |
Author | Peter John Patrick Gogan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Mammal populations |
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Elephant Seals
Title | Elephant Seals PDF eBook |
Author | Burney J. Le Beouf |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2022-07-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520368177 |
The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal. This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
The Ecology and Population Biology of the Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga Angustirostris Gill 1866, on the Southern California Channel Islands
Title | The Ecology and Population Biology of the Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga Angustirostris Gill 1866, on the Southern California Channel Islands PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Scott Stewart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Marine mammals |
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Population growth and seasonal movements of the northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Title | Population growth and seasonal movements of the northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris PDF eBook |
Author | G.A. BARTHOLOMEW |
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Pages | |
Release | 1960 |
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The Northern Elephant Seal
Title | The Northern Elephant Seal PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Haskins Townsend |
Publisher | Legare Street Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-10-27 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781018175294 |
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An Annotated Catalog of Published and Unpublished Sources of Data on Populations, Life History, and Ecology of Coastal Marine Mammals of California
Title | An Annotated Catalog of Published and Unpublished Sources of Data on Populations, Life History, and Ecology of Coastal Marine Mammals of California PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Marine mammals |
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Wildlife Review
Title | Wildlife Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Wildlife conservation |
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