nerc.ac.uk

Activity budgets of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, during the breeding season

McCann, T.S.. 1983 Activity budgets of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, during the breeding season. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 61 (2). 111-126. 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1983.tb01332.x

Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)

Abstract/Summary

Elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, of both sexes undergo a prolonged fast during the breeding season when they rely on their reserves of blubber for energy. Activity patterns were observed in order to investigate the partitioning of these limited resources and in particular the allocation of time to different activities and the effect of individual status, season, time of day and other environmental variables. The results suggest that variations in activity patterns were related to the costs and benefits involved.

Item Type: Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1983.tb01332.x
ISSN: 00443573
Date made live: 04 Jul 2019 09:07 +0 (UTC)
URI: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524174

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Document Downloads

Downloads for past 30 days

Downloads per month over past year

More statistics for this item...