Underwater and surface behavior of homing juvenile northern elephant seals

Northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris, travel between colonies along the west coast of North America and foraging areas in the North Pacific. They also have the ability to return to their home colony after being experimentally translocated. However, the mechanisms of this navigation are n...

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Published in:Journal of Experimental Biology
Main Authors: Matsumura, Moe, Watanabe, Yuuki Y., Robinson, Patrick W., Miller, Patrick J. O., Costa, Daniel P., Miyazaki, Nobuyuki
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/underwater-and-surface-behavior-of-homing-juvenile-northern-elephant-seals(a16e6927-c21d-4466-a5b1-3a58bfa69211).html
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.048827