Foraging Energetics of Antartic Fur Seals in Relation to Changes in Prey Availability

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Costa, Daniel P., Croxall, John P., Duck, Callan D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1989
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Fur Seals; antartic*; Arctocephalus gazella; South Georgia Island; Callorhinus ursinus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1940211; http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1940211; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.2307%2F1940211; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/1940211

This research examines the energy budget of breeding female Antarctic fur seals, both when food was plentiful and when it is scarce. The energy expenditure and change in body mass of lactating female Antartic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, foraging at sea was measured in two years using doubly la...