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Diving seals and meditating yogis : strategic metabolic retreats /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elsner, Robert (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Seals (Animals) > Behavior.
Diving.
Metabolism > Regulation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Strategic metabolic retreats
  • Marine mammal divers
  • Meditating yogis
  • Cardiovascular and metabolic interactions in diving seals
  • Regulatory mechanisms in the seal's dives
  • The conditioning phenomenon
  • Hibernation and diving
  • Human divers
  • Resistances to asphyxia.