At surface behaviour of juvenile and female southern elephant seals from King George Island from expeditions JUB1996 and JUB1997

• Main Authors: Bornemann, Horst, Kreyscher, Martin, Ramdohr, Sven, Martin, Thomas, Carlini, Alejandro R, Sellmann, Lutz, Plötz, Joachim
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2000
• Subjects: Dallmann Laboratory; JUB1996; JUB1996_sel_u_f_02; JUB1996_sel_u_f_05; JUB1996_sel_u_f_06; JUB1996_sel_u_m_01; JUB1996_sel_u_m_03; JUB1996_sel_u_m_04; JUB1996_sel_u_m_07; JUB1997; JUB1997_sel_a_f_01; JUB1997_sel_a_f_02; JUB1997_sel_a_f_03; JUB1997_sel_a_f_04; JUB1997_sel_a_f_05; JUB1997_sel_a_f_06; JUB1997_sel_a_f_07; JUB1997_sel_a_f_08; JUB1997_sel_a_f_09; JUB1997_sel_a_f_10; JUB1997_sel_a_f_11; JUB1997_sel_a_f_12; JUB1997_sel_a_f_13; Marine endotherm; Marine Mammal Tracking; MET; MMT; Southern Ocean - Atlantic Sector; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; King George Island; Bellingshausen Sea; Pacific; Gerlache; De Gerlache; De Gerlache Seamounts; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.586824; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.586824

Between December 1996 and February 1997, weaned pups and postmoult female southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were fitted with satellite transmitters at King George Island (South Shetlands). Of the nine adult females tracked for more than two months, three stayed in a localized area between t...