Foraging fidelity as a recipe for a long life: foraging strategy and longevity in male Southern Elephant Seals.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Matthieu Authier, Ilham Bentaleb, Aurore Ponchon, Céline Martin, Christophe Guinet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Îles Kerguelen; Kerguelen; Southern Ocean; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032026; https://doaj.org/article/7d58d845bcb841cd836cb0816cc74b1a

Identifying individual factors affecting life-span has long been of interest for biologists and demographers: how do some individuals manage to dodge the forces of mortality when the vast majority does not? Answering this question is not straightforward, partly because of the arduous task of accurat...