The Pinnipeds
Subtitle: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 13, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780520064973
Subjects: Mammals; Sea lions; Marine Mammals; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Seals (Animals); Science / Biology; Pinnipedia; Walruses
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.