The cost of foraging by a marine predator, the Weddell seal Leptonychotes weddellii: Pricing by the stroke

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 973-982

  Williams, Terrie M ^a   Fuiman, Lee A ^b   Horning, Markus ^c   Davis, Randall W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dive; Foraging energetics; Leptonychotes weddellii; Locomotor cost; Oxygen consumption; Plasma lactate; Stroke frequency; Weddell seal

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DIGESTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; DIVING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LACTIC ACID; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEALS, EARLESS; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; MAMMALIA; PHOCIDAE; PLEURAGRAMMA ANTARCTICUM; POLARIBACTER;

EID: 1642290249     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00822     Document Type: Article

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