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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Marine Mammals
    sub title: Adaptations for an Aquatic Life
  name:
    name part: Davis, Randall W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XII, 302 pages 119 illustrations, 71 illustrations in color.)
  abstract: This comprehensive book provides new insights into the morphological, metabolic, thermoregulatory, locomotory, diving, sensory, feeding, and sleep adaptations of Cetacea (whales and dolphins), Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions and walrus), Sirenia (manatees and dugongs) and sea otters for an aquatic life. Each chapter reviews the discoveries from previous studies and integrates recent research using new techniques and technology. Readers will gain an understanding of the remarkable adaptations that enable marine mammals to spend all or most of their lives at sea, often while hunting prey at depth.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Return to the Sea: The Evolution of Marine Mammals -- 3. Respiration and the Effects of Pressure -- 4. Metabolism and Thermoregulation -- 5. Locomotion -- 6. Physiological and Metabolic Adaptations for Breath-hold Diving -- 7. Sensory Systems -- 8. Feeding and Digestion -- 9. Sleep.
  note: by Randall W. Davis.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Aquatic ecology
  subject:
    topic: Zoology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Freshwater & Marine Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  classification: 590
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319982809
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  record info:
    record creation date: 191114
    record change date: 20230330185010.7
    record identifier: in00004112666