Elephant Seals
Subtitle: Population Ecology, Behavior, and Physiology
Contributors: Burney J. Le Beouf (Editor); Richard M. Laws (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 26, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780520083646
Subjects: Mammals; Individual Species Of Mammals; Marine Mammals; Animals; Nature/Ecology; General; Nature / Water Supply; Animals / Pets; Elephant seals
First sentence: ABSTRACT. The two species of elephant seals, M. angustirostris and M.leonina, inhabit different parts of the world, in opposite hemispheres and contrasting climatic zones, they breed at different times of the year, and they differ in size and elaboration of male secondary sexual characteristics.