Factors affecting maternal expenditure in southern elephant seals during lactation

• Main Authors: Arnbom, Tom, Fedak, M. A., Boyd, Ian L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ecological Society of America 1997
• Subjects: South Georgia Island; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505733/; https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0471:FAMEIS]2.0.CO;2

Southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina provide a unique opportunity for examination of parental investment because postpartum pup growth is fueled exclusively by energy from stored reserves in fasting mothers, and the seals are extremely sexually dimorphic as adults. We examined the influence of p...