Proportional weekly use of underwater call types by weddell seals, Leptonychotes weddellii (Pinnipedia:Phocidae), during the breeding season at the Vestfold Hills

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-79

  Pahl, B C ^a   Terhune, J M ^a   Burton, H R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII;

EID: 0030066310     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO9960075     Document Type: Article

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