Foraging and provisioning in Antarctic fur seals: interannual variability in time-energy budgets

• Published in: Behavioral Ecology
• Main Author: Boyd, I. L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1999
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/10/2/198; https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/10.2.198

This study examined three competing hypotheses to explain how lactating Antarctic fur seals ( Arctocephalus gazella ) respond to changes in the level of resource availability. Antarctic fur seals have episodic bouts of suckling (1-3 days), alternating with foraging trips (3-10 days). Foraging time b...