Summer diving and haul‐out behavior of leopard seals ( Hydrurga leptonyx ) near mesopredator breeding colonies at Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Krause, Douglas J., Goebel, Michael E., Marshall, Greg J., Abernathy, Kyler
• Other Authors: National Geographic Society
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Aquatic Science; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Hydrurga; Livingston Island; Antarc*; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seals
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mms.12309; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmms.12309; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mms.12309; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/mms.12309

Abstract Leopard seals are conspicuous apex predators in Antarctic coastal ecosystems, yet their foraging ecology is poorly understood. Historically, the ecology of diving vertebrates has been studied using high‐resolution time‐depth records; however, to date such data have not been available for le...