Under-yearling and yearling southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) movements at Marion Island: bathymetric relationships

• Main Authors: Tosh, C., Bester, M. N., Bornemann, Horst, Burton, H. R., Pistorius, P. A., Plötz, Joachim, Ramdohr, S., Stewart, B., van den Hoff, J.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Marion Island; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/18055/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28596

The existence of elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) is energetically demanding. Finding patchily distributed food throughout the Southern Ocean varies between populations and individuals. Uniquely marked (Pistorius et al. 1999) underyearling (n=4) and yearling (n=11) southern elephant seals were inst...