Forced into an ecological corner: Round-the-clock deep foraging on small prey by elephant seals

Abstract

It is not easy to get fat: Seals’ extreme foraging suggests evolutionary trade-off of large body size in marine mammals.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
May 14, 2021
Source ID
10.1126/sciadv.abg3628

Entities

People

  • Akinori Takahashi
  • Daniel P. Costa
  • Luis Huckstadt
  • Patrick W. Robinson
  • Rachel R Holser
  • Roxanne S Beltran
  • Sarah H Peterson
  • Taiki Adachi
  • Theresa Keates
  • Yasuhiko Naito

Organizations

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • National Institute of Polar Research
  • Office of Naval Research
  • University of California
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University of North Carolina Wilmington

Tags

Readers

  • Exercise and Sports Science.
  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Systems Analysis and Design