California sea lions
Total body oxygen stores and physiological diving capacity of California sea lions as a function of sex and age
... Australian sea lion and Galapagos fur seal, do not reach adult levels of Hct and Hb until 18 months (Fowler, 2005) and 15 months of age (Trillmich, 1992), ...Steller sea lions [Hct, 5 months; Hb, 9 ...
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Aerial audiograms of several California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) and Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) measured using single and multiple simultaneous auditory steady state response methods
... ASSR procedures were conducted with seven California sea lions. Thresholds were determined for SAM tones with center frequencies of 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32kHz. The tones had 100% amplitude modulation ...
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Standard metabolic rate at the surface and during trained submersions in adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus)
... Our results indicate that California sea lions maintain elevated MRs under standard conditions ranging from 1.9 to 3 times the value predicted for terrestrial animals of equal size (Kleiber, 1975). ...
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Cyclical changes in seroprevalence of leptospirosis in California sea lions: endemic and epidemic disease in one host species?
... In California, leptospirosis has resurged in humans and domestic dogs ...in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) off the central and northern coasts of California, with hun- ...
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Serum profiling by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry as a diagnostic tool for domoic acid toxicosis in California sea lions
... one sea lion that had just been admitted into the MMP from TMMC, all MMP individuals had been under the long-term care of veteri- narians, hence were collectively deemed ‘ managed ’ ...from California ...
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Clinical relevance of novel Otarine herpesvirus-3 in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus): lymphoma, esophageal ulcers, and strandings
... including California sea ...TMMC sea lions, including sex, age class, re-stranding status, body condition, and cause of stranding such as trauma, abscesses, domoic acid toxicosis, or ...
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The Fecal Viral Flora of California Sea Lions
... California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) have a popula- tion of approximately 240,000 and along with seals and wal- ruses are members of the subgroup Pinnipedia in the suborder Caniformia in the ...
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Flipper stroke rate and venous oxygen levels in free ranging California sea lions
... Most California sea lion dives are shallower than 100 m, yet many adult female California sea lions from San Nicolas Island are known to be deep divers (Kuhn and Costa, 2014; McHuron et ...
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The effects of water temperature on the energetic costs of juvenile and adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus): the importance of skeletal muscle thermogenesis for thermal balance
... juvenile sea lions, probably by enabling the use of heat generated by skeletal muscle activity to meet thermal energetic ...juvenile sea lions exhibited metabolic rates lower than predicted by ...
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Relationship between heart rate and oxygen consumption during steady state swimming in California sea lions
... the substantial variations in heart rate associated with diving activity, Fedak 1986 demonstrated that there was a linear relationship between/H and VO2 in a grey seal during increasing [r] ...
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Insights from venous oxygen profiles: oxygen utilization and management in diving California sea lions
... one sea lion were not recovered and two deployments failed due to electrode failure before diving ...sea lions. The range in the number of profiles analyzed for each sea lion was secondary to ...
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Can fear conditioning repel California sea lions from fishing activities?
... 3 Boxplot for sea lion responses time spent away from bait barge during bait barge trials... Boxes show median line within the box and upper 25% and lower 75% quartiles, whiskers.[r] ...
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Predicting metabolic rate from heart rate in juvenile Steller sea lions Eumetopias jubatus
... grypus, California sea lions Zalophus californianus, harbour seals Phoca vitulina and bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus (Williams et ...Steller sea lions, there is no reason to ...
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Mental rotation in a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)
... the sea lion applied a concept-like matching rule (same–different or identity concept) for solving mental rotation ...Although California sea lions have been shown to fulfil this first-trial ...
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Metabolic costs of foraging and the management of O2 and CO2 stores in Steller sea lions
... in California sea lions (Ponganis et ...the sea lions to dive for longer without exceeding the calculated aerobic dive limit ...
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Heart rate regulation in diving sea lions: the vagus nerve rules
... diving California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), we present an alternative interpretation of heart rate regulation that de-emphasizes the concept of autonomic conflict and the risk of morbid ...
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Foraging energetics and diving behavior of lactating New Zealand sea lions, Phocarctos hookeri
... Zealand sea lions would have a reduced diving metabolic rate and that this would result in a correspondingly lower at-sea ...Zealand sea lions was ...Australian sea lions ...
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Hydrodynamic drag in steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
... Steller sea lions utilize the same propulsion mode as other otariids, but their performance differs somewhat from California sea lions because of their larger ...Steller sea ...
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Foraging behaviour of juvenile female New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri) in contrasting environments
... NZ sea lions suggest the extreme foraging behaviour, smaller size and low milk fat content of AI females are not species- specific, but demonstrate plasticity in behaviour, morphology and physiology in ...
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The California Sea Otter: Emerging Conflicts in Resource Management
... (2) Any State may adopt and enforce any laws or regulations relating to the protection and taking, within its jurisdiction, of any species or popu- lation stock of marine ma[r] ...
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