Elephant Seals: Pushing the Limits on Land and at Sea (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316511541)

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.

Author: Bernard J. Le Boeuf
ISBN-10: 1316511545
ISBN-13: 9781316511541
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2021
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.80h x 8.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2022