Silence as an Antipredation Strategy by Weddell Seals
In McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Weddell seals return to traditional breeding colonies on shorefast ice each austral spring. This fast ice provides a stable platform, over a 2-month period, for raising pups and a fixed location for establishing underwater mating territories. However, it also may provid...
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1989
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