Drinking behaviour and water turnover rates of Antarctic fur seal pups: Implications for the estimation of milk intake by isotopic dilution

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 321-331

  Lea, Mary Anne ^a   Bonadonna, Francesco ^b   Hindell, Mark A ^a   Guinet, Christophe ^b   Goldsworthy, Simon D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metabolic water production; Milk intake; Otariid; Pinniped; Turnover; Water drinking

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM; WATER;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DILUTION; DRINKING; FLUID INTAKE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MILK; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; SEAL; TECHNIQUE; WATER METABOLISM; ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; BODY COMPOSITION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MALE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BODY COMPOSITION; DRINKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FUR SEALS; MALE; MILK; TRITIUM; WATER;

EID: 0035999593     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00030-2     Document Type: Article

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