The Pinnipeds
Subtitle: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: June 25, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780520064980
Subjects: Mammals; Seals (Animals); Pinnipedia; Animals; Science/Mathematics; Walruses; General; Science / Biology; Sea lions
First sentence: As the marine mammalogist Victor Scheffer notes in the epigraph to this chapter, the pinnipeds are remarkable mammals whose amphibious nature has necessitated a wide range of adaptations to life both in the water and on land or ice.