Bernard J. Le Boeuf

Elephant Seals (eBook, ePUB)

Pushing the Limits on Land and at Sea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did the elephant seal survive being driven to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century? What variables determine the lifetime reproductive success of individual seals? How have elephant seals adapted to tolerate remarkable physiological extremes of nutrition, temperature, asphyxia, and pressure? Answering these questions and many more, this book is the result of the author's 50-year study of elephant seals. The chapters cover a broad range of topics including diving, feeding, migration and reproductive behavior, yielding fundamental information on general biological principles, the operation of natural selection, the evolution of social behavior, the formation of vocal dialects, colony development, and population changes over time. The book will be a valuable resource for graduate students and researchers of marine mammal behavior and reproductive life history as well as for amateur naturalists interested in these fascinating animals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009062008
• Artikelnr.: 66176214

Autorenporträt

Bernard J. Le Boeuf is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is considered one of the pioneers of the field of marine mammal behavior, known particularly for his studies of seal social behavior, diving behavior, diving physiology and migration. He has published widely on topics in reproductive behavior, ecology and behavioral biology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Origins, misnomers, and bottleneck
2. Back from the abyss, recovery and genetic aftermath
3. The year of the seal
4. Fieldwork 101: getting there and getting started
5. Adapting to life at sea and on land
6. The cost of living in a seal harem
7. Coito ergo sum: males explained
8. Females: designed to reproduce
9. Diving, foraging, and migration
10. Development
11. Sleep when you can
12. What is all the noise about?
13. Comparisons, unsolved mysteries, and conclusions
References
Index.