Mass transfer from mothers to pups and mass recovery by mothers during the post-breeding foraging period in southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) at King George Island

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Polar Biology

• Publication date

  1997-10-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s003000050192
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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