At surface behaviour of juvenile and female southern elephant seals from King George Island from expeditions JUB1996 and JUB1997 ...

• Main Authors: Bornemann, Horst, Kreyscher, Martin, Ramdohr, Sven, Martin, Thomas, Carlini, Alejandro R, Sellmann, Lutz, Plötz, Joachim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2000
• Subjects: Marine endotherm; JUB1996; JUB1997; Dallmann Laboratory; Marine Mammal Tracking MMT; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bellingshausen Sea; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; King George Island; Mirounga leonina; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.586824; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.586824

Between December 1996 and February 1997, weaned pups and postmoult female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were fitted with satellite transmitters at King George Island (South Shetlands). Of the nine adult females tracked for more than two months, three stayed in a localized area between the South Shetlands and the South Orkneys. The other six females travelled southwest along the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula up to the Bellingshausen Sea. Two of them then moved far northeast and hauled out on South Georgia in October. One female was last located north of the South Shetlands in March 1998. In total, eight females were again sighted on King George Island and six of the transmitters removed. The tracks of the weaners contrasted with those of the adults. In January, five juveniles left King George Island for the Pacific sector ranging about four weeks in the open sea west of the De Gerlache Seamounts. Three of them returned to the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula in June, of which one was last ... : Supplement to: Bornemann, Horst; Kreyscher, Martin; Ramdohr, Sven; Martin, Thomas; Carlini, Alejandro R; Sellmann, Lutz; Plötz, Joachim (2000): Southern elephant seal movements and Antarctic sea ice. Antarctic Science, 12(1), 3-15 ...