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Basic facts about Elephant Seal: lifespan, distribution and habitat map, lifestyle and social behavior, mating habits, diet and nutrition, population size and status.
Elephant Seal Habitat and Diet. The elephant seal is almost entirely aquatic, coming ashore primarily to breed. Its range is mostly in warm waters. Elephant seals presumably feed in deep water and eat squid, and fish, including small sharks and rays. They can fast as long as 3 months.
26 maj 2016 · For elephant seals, relative change in body condition is detectable via changes in buoyancy of the animals themselves measured as the drift rates of dives (Crocker et al. 1997, Schick et al. 2013, New et al. 2014) and this measure has been shown to be a useful assessor of habitat quality (Biuw et al. 2003). However, due to the data compression ...
Behavioral ecology research on northern and southern elephant seals has evolved from simple land-based studies of abundance to complex analyses of at-sea spatial utilization relative to oceanographic features. This progress is primarily due to the development of new technologies.
Diet of the Elephant Seal. Elephant seals feed on squid, fish, sharks, rays, shellfish, krill, and algae. It is believed that squid makes up a large part of their diet. Phocids vs. Otariids. Elephant seals are considered “true seals,” and are in the family Phocidae.
26 sty 2022 · We investigate the role of personality, sex, and body size in shaping large-scale foraging habitat selection in southern elephant seals (SES; Mirounga leonina; Figure 1) from the Courbet Peninsula in the Kerguelen Archipelago. SESs are the largest pinniped species inhabiting the Southern Ocean.
24 cze 2021 · The researchers outfitted 48 female elephant seals with data loggers that tracked everything from location and depth to jaw motion and seal buoyancy, which helps estimate the rate of fat...
