Interseasonal and interannual measures of maternal care among individual steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 304-311

  Maniscalco, John M ^a   Parker, Pamela ^a   Atkinson, Shannon ^a  

^a ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth timing; Eumetopias jubatus; Foraging cycles; Maternal care; Perinatal period; Remote video; Steller sea lion

Indexed keywords

FOOD INTAKE; MARINE MAMMAL; MATERNAL CARE; PARTURITION; PINNIPED; PLATEAU;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; OTARIIDAE;

EID: 33646238469     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-163R2.1     Document Type: Article

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