Fur seals do, but sea lions don't — cross taxa insights into exhalation during ascent from dives

Management of gases during diving is not well understood across marine mammal species. Prior to diving, phocid (true) seals generally exhale, a behaviour thought to assist with the prevention of decompression sickness. Otariid seals (fur seals and sea lions) have a greater reliance on their lung oxy...

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Published in:Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Main Authors: Hooker, Sascha K., Andrews, Russel D., Arnould, John P. Y., Bester, Marthán N., Davis, Randall W., Insley, Stephen J., Gales, Nick J., Goldsworthy, Simon D., McKnight, J. Chris
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2021
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8200655/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34121462
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0219
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