Sink or swim: Strategies for cost-efficient diving by marine mammals

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5463, 2000, Pages 133-136

  Williams, Terrie M ^a   Davis, R W ^b   Fuiman, L A ^c   Francis, J ^d   Le Boeuf, B J ^a   Horning, M ^b   Calambokidis, J ^e   Croll, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^e Cascadia Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MARINE MAMMAL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIVING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAL; VIDEORECORDING; WHALE;

ANIMALS; DIVING; DOLPHINS; ENERGY METABOLISM; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEALS, EARLESS; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034616228     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5463.133     Document Type: Article

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