Sex and age differences in thermoregulatory sand-flipping in northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) in their Piedras Blancas breeding colony
Elephant seals lying belly-down on beaches habitually use their front or pectoral flippers to scoop sand from the beach ant throw it onto their backs. One study indicated that this behavior is thermoregulatory: allowing moisture evaporating from the sand cooling the seal’s skin. This is the first st...
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Scholarly Commons
2011
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| Online Access: | https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/purcc/2011/events/37 |