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Extreme capital breeding for giants: Effects of body size on humpback whale energy expenditure and fasting endurance Ecological Modelling, 2024 (Ref: 17212)
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Baleen whales are extreme capital breeders, capable of fasting for more than half a year while migrating thousands of kilometres and nursing rapidly growing offspring that quadruple in body size over the same period. To understand this energetic conundrum…

Handling intensity and the short- and long-term survival of Elephant Seals: Addressing and quantifying research effects on wild animals Ambio, 2005 (Ref: 12461)
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This study addresses the consequences of repeated … human handling on the survival of an endangered phocid, the southern elephant seal and the implications for wildlife … research. Southern elephant seal pups were repeatedly … handled during the first six weeks of their lives.

Blood chemistry in southern elephant seal mothers and pups during lactation reveals no effect of handling. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, 2002 (Ref: 10732)
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Serum clinical chemistry parameters were examined in lactating southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina mothers and … their pups from the declining Macquarie Island population.There were significant changes in serum values from 2 to … 21 days postpartum in both nursing mothers (increase:

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