Feeding Rates of Seals and Whales
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Animal Ecology
- Vol. 56 (1), 115-130
- https://doi.org/10.2307/4803
Abstract
(1) The hypothesis that rates of food consumption by marine mammals are similar to those of terrestrial mammals was tested by comparing rates of food consumptio...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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