Movements of southern elephant seals
Twelve southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were tracked for an average of 119 days as they left their breeding or moulting beaches on the island of South Georgia between 1990 and 1994. Females travelled either eastward up to 3000 km away to the open Southern Ocean or to the continental shelf...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/z96-163 2023-12-17T10:21:21+01:00 Movements of southern elephant seals McConnell, B. J. Fedak, M. A. 1996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z96-163 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z96-163 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Zoology volume 74, issue 8, page 1485-1496 ISSN 0008-4301 1480-3283 Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 1996 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/z96-163 2023-11-19T13:39:00Z Twelve southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were tracked for an average of 119 days as they left their breeding or moulting beaches on the island of South Georgia between 1990 and 1994. Females travelled either eastward up to 3000 km away to the open Southern Ocean or to the continental shelf on or near the Antarctic Peninsula. Males either stayed close to South Georgia or used South Georgia as a base for shorter trips. The females all left South Georgia in a directed manner at an average rate of 79.4 km/day over at least the first 15 days. Thereafter travel was interrupted by bouts of slower travel or stationary phases. The latter were localized at sites on the continental shelf or along its edge. Three seals that were tracked over more than one season repeated their outward direction of travel and used some of the same sites in subsequent years. The magnitude of the movements makes most of the Southern Ocean potentially available to elephant seals. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Elephant Seals Mirounga leonina Southern Elephant Seals Southern Ocean Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Canadian Journal of Zoology 74 8 1485 1496 |
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Twelve southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were tracked for an average of 119 days as they left their breeding or moulting beaches on the island of South Georgia between 1990 and 1994. Females travelled either eastward up to 3000 km away to the open Southern Ocean or to the continental shelf on or near the Antarctic Peninsula. Males either stayed close to South Georgia or used South Georgia as a base for shorter trips. The females all left South Georgia in a directed manner at an average rate of 79.4 km/day over at least the first 15 days. Thereafter travel was interrupted by bouts of slower travel or stationary phases. The latter were localized at sites on the continental shelf or along its edge. Three seals that were tracked over more than one season repeated their outward direction of travel and used some of the same sites in subsequent years. The magnitude of the movements makes most of the Southern Ocean potentially available to elephant seals. |
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Movements of southern elephant seals |
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Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Elephant Seals Mirounga leonina Southern Elephant Seals Southern Ocean |
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