论文信息 - Movements of the weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Movements of the weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Weddell seal populations are sedentary and discrete in stable ice areas. Adult females showed a high degree of fidelity to specific pupping colonies but retained the behavioural plasticity to accept adjacent colonies in unfavourable ice conditions. The movements of non-parturient females during the pupping season were not related to the colony at which they preferred to give birth.

I. Stirling

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