Spatial and temporal distribution of vocalising male bearded seals

• Main Authors: Kovacs, Kit M., Van Parijs, Sofie, Lydersen, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2008
• Subjects: BIOTA; biology; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; Arctic; Jan Mayen; Svalbard; bearded seal; Erignathus barbatus; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; North Atlantic; Phoca vitulina; walrus*
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/5aea8b9b-d402-5240-9081-6c2267e972f5

The bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, is an ice breeding phocid that mates in the water. The most detailed studies of male behaviour among aquatic-mating phocids have concentrated primarily on temperate breeding harbour seals, Phoca vitulina, where females are dependent on stable substrates, rock o...