Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Age determination (Zoology)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Age Determination of Wildlife
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Age determination (Zoology)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Elephant Seals
Author: Burney J. Le BeoufPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520328159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal. This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Circular
Author: Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Fishery-Oceanography Center, La Jolla, California
Author: Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Author: Royal Society of TasmaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Vols.for 1878,1879,1881,1884 contain "List of fellows and members."
Books and Articles on Marine Mammals
Author: Ethel I. ToddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Aquatic Mammals
Author: The Pinnipeds
Author: Marianne RiedmanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064973
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Discusses the adaptation, evolution, classification, distribution, ecology, behavior, communication, and learning of seals, sea lions and walruses.
Antarctic Ecology
Author: Richard M. LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Collection of 15 papers on Antarctic ecology: The terrestrial environment by D.W.H. Walton; Terrestrial plant biology by R.I. Lewis Smith; Terrestrial microbiology, invertebrates and ecosystems by W. Block; Introduced mammals by W.N. Bonner; Inland waters by R.B. Heywood; The marine environment by T.D. Foster; The marine flora by R.B. Heywood and T.M. Whitaker; Marine zooplankton by J. Everson; Fish by J. Everson; Seabirds by J.P. Croxall; Seals by R.M. Laws; Whales by S.G. Brown and C.H. Lockyer; Marine interactions by J. Everson; Conservation and the Antarctic by W.N. Bonner.