To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Mammals  Marine Mammals  Seals, Sea Lions & Walruses (Pinnipedia)

Elephant Seals Population Ecology, Behavior, and Physiology

Monograph
By: Bernard J Le Boeuf(Editor), Richard M Laws(Editor)
434 pages, 3 b/w photos, 86 b/w illustrations, 48 tables
Elephant Seals
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Elephant Seals ISBN: 9780520328143 Paperback Sep 2022 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £41.99
    #257888
  • Elephant Seals ISBN: 9780520368170 Hardback no dustjacket May 2023 Out of stock with supplier: order now to get this when available
    £70.99
    #257887
Selected version: £70.99
About this book Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

This title was originally published in 1994 and is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.

The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal.

This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them.

Customer Reviews

Biography

Burney J. Le Boeuf is a Professor of Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Richard M. Laws is a Master of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Monograph
By: Bernard J Le Boeuf(Editor), Richard M Laws(Editor)
434 pages, 3 b/w photos, 86 b/w illustrations, 48 tables
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides