Title: Diving seals and meditating yogis : strategic metabolic retreats /
Authors: Elsner, Robert,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Seals (Animals) Behavior; Diving; Metabolism Regulation; Diving; Metabolism Regulation; Seals (Animals) Behavior
Abstract: The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through comparison with members of our own species on quests toward enlightenment: meditating yogis.
Contents: Strategic metabolic retreats -- Marine mammal divers -- Meditating yogis -- Cardiovascular and metabolic interactions in diving seals -- Regulatory mechanisms in the seal's dives -- The conditioning phenomenon -- Hibernation and diving -- Human divers -- Resistances to asphyxia.