Assessing Weddell seal maternal investment in offspring

• Main Author: Mannas, Jennifer Michelle
• Other Authors: Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Robert A. Garrott
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science 2011
• Subjects: Weddell seal; Animal breeding; Erebus Bay; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seal
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/1785

Reproduction is costly and involves a number of sequential physiological processes that require different levels of energetic investment. In mammalian species gestation and lactation require the most energy and the amount of energy invested in reproduction is reflected in litter size at birth and by...