BODY TEMPERATURE IN THE NEWBORN SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL, MIROUNGA LEONINA, AT MACQUARIE ISLAND

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Author: Little, G. J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1995
• Subjects: body temperature; Macquarie Island; Mirounga leonina; newborn; southern elephant seal; 1104 Aquatic Science; 1105 Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Signy Island; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:34db3b1

Newborn southern elephant seal pups were reported by Laws (1953) to be “to some extent poikilothermic at birth.” Rectal temperatures of known age southern elephant seal pups were recorded during the 1985 pupping season at Macquarie Island. The mean pup rectal temperature was found to be 381°C ± 0.1°...