Contrasting behavior between two populations of an ice-obligate predator in East Antarctica

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Heerah, K, Hindell, M, Andrew-Goff, V, Field, I, McMahon, CR, Charrassin, J-B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2017
• Subjects: Foraging ecology; predator; Antarctica; Weddell seal; capital breeder; first-passage time; habitat use; movement patterns; pinnipeds; polar regions; winter; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Austral; Weddell; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; Antarc*; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/44719/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/44719/1/Heerah-2017-Contrasting%20behavior%20between%20two%20p.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.2652

The Austral autumn–winter is a critical period for capital breeders such as Weddell seals that must optimize resource acquisition and storage to provision breeding in the subsequent spring. However, how Weddell seals find food in the winter months remains poorly documented. We equipped adult Weddell...