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

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

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Science Advances
Main Authors: Adachi, Taiki, Takahashi, Akinori, Costa, Daniel P., Robinson, Patrick W., Hückstädt, Luis A., Peterson, Sarah H., Holser, Rachel R., Beltran, Roxanne S., Keates, Theresa R., Naito, Yasuhiko
Other Authors: Office of Naval Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2021
Subjects:
Elephant Seals
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abg3628
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg3628
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.abg3628
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Summary:It is not easy to get fat: Seals’ extreme foraging suggests evolutionary trade-off of large body size in marine mammals.

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