The foraging benefits of being fat in a highly migratory marine mammal

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1797, 2014, Pages

  Adachi, Taiki ^a   Maresh, Jennifer L ^b   Robinson, Patrick W ^b   Peterson, Sarah H ^b   Costa, Daniel P ^b   Naito, Yasuhiko ^c   Watanabe, Yuuki Y ^a,c   Takahashi, Akinori ^a,c  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Buoyancy; Cost of transport; Elephant seal; Foraging behaviour; Swimming behaviour

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; BIOENERGETICS; BODY CONDITION; BODY MASS; BUOYANCY; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FAT RESERVE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GLIDING; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PINNIPED;

MAMMALIA; MIROUNGA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; DIVING; FEMALE; PHOCIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SWIMMING;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; DIVING; FEMALE; SEALS, EARLESS; SWIMMING;

EID: 84908697919     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2120     Document Type: Article

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