Food consumption estimates of southern elephant seal females during their post-breeding aquatic phase at King George Island

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• Published: 2005
• Subjects: body condition; body mass; diet; feeding ecology; food consumption; foraging behavior; pinniped; Antarctica; Arctic and Antarctic; King George Island; South Shetland Islands; World; Cephalopoda; Mirounga leonina; Antarctic; Arctic; Stranger Point; Antarc*; Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_07224060_v28_n10_p769_Carlini; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_07224060_v28_n10_p769_Carlini

Changes in mass and body composition, measured with labelled water, were used to quantify the energy expenditure during lactation and energy replenishment during the post-breeding aquatic phase in Southern elephant seal females at Stranger Point, King George Island. During lactation females spent a...