Author: Richard Maitland LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Animals)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Elephant Seal (Mirounga Leonina Linn.): Growth and age
Author: Richard Maitland LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Animals)
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Elephant Seal (Mirounga Leonina Linn).
Author: Richard M. LawsElephant 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.
Asdell's Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction
Author: Virginia Douglass HayssenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801417535
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Since the appearance of the second edition of Sydney A. Asdell's widely used Patterns of Mammalian Reproduction in 1964, the field of reproductive physiology has expanded dramatically. Accordingly, this revision adopts a different structure from previous editions, substituting empirical delineations for physiological interpretations. With the emphases now on a presentation of the published facts of mammalian reproduction, it provides a thorough compilation of what is known about the basic reproductive biology of each of the 4300 mammalian species.To gather information, the authors examined more than 20,000 publications, dating up to 1992. They used primary sources as much as possible, supplementing them with English translations of Russian, Finnish, Chinese, and Japanese journals. The data are presented in taxonomic order. Each familial account summarizes the pattern of reproduction for the family and provides lists of citations arranged by topic of the literature on the endocrinology, reproductive anatomy, and reproductive physiology of the family. Following each account is a tabular listing of species-specific data for neonatal mass and size, weaning mass and size, litter size, age at sexual maturity, estrous cycle length, gestation length, lactation length, number of litters per year, and seasonality of reproduction. For each of these reproductive variables, the range of data gleaned from the literature is given, together with the source of each value listed.Virginia Hayssen is Assistant Professor of Biology at Smith College. Ari Van Tienhoven is Professor of Animal Physiology, Emeritus, at Cornell University. Ans Van Tienhoven assisted in the compilation of data for the book.
Principles and Prenatal Growth
Author: F. FalknerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468408143
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
Growth, as we conceive it, is the study of change in an organism not yet mature. Differential growth creates form: external form through growth rates which vary from one part of the body to another and one tissue to another; and internal form through the series of time-entrained events which build up in each cell the special ized complexity of its particular function. We make no distinction, then, between growth and development, and if we have not included accounts of differentiation it is simply because we had to draw a quite arbitrary line somewhere. It is only rather recently that those involved in pediatrics and child health have come to realize that growth is the basic science peculiar to their art. It is a science which uses and incorporates the traditional disciplines of anatomy, physiology, biophysics, biochemistry, and biology. It is indeed apart ofbiology, and the study of human growth is a part of the curriculum of the rejuvenated science of Human Biology. What growth is not is aseries of charts of height and weight. Growth standards are useful and necessary, and their construction is by no means void of intellectualchallenge. Theyare a basic instrument in pediatric epidemiology. But they do not appear in this book, any more than clinical accounts of growth disorders. This appears to be the first large handbook-in three volumes-devoted to Human Growth. Smaller textbooks on the subject began to appear in the late nineteenth century, some written by pediatricians and some by anthropologists.
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.
Human Growth
Author: Frank FalknerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461321018
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Marine Mammal Protection Oversight
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquatic mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Mammals in the Seas
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Working Party on Marine MammalsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251005149
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Subantarctic Macquarie Island
Author: Patricia SelkirkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521266338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This fascinating and readable account will appeal to all those interested in the Antarctic region in general.