Exceptional morphological and taxonomic diversity of early seals (Phocidae) from the Atacama Region, Chile

AM Valenzuela-Toro, CS Gutstein, ME Suárez - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Contrasting with their current ranges in the Antarctic and subantarctic zones, the fossil
record reveals that phocids (true and elephant seals) inhabited widespread subtropical …

Unprecedented records of Guadalupe and Juan Fernández fur seals in the Galapagos Archipelago

D Paez-Rosas, DA Pazmino… - Aquatic …, 2020 - search.proquest.com
Páez-Rosas et al discuss the unprecedented records of Guadalupe and Juan Fernández fur
seals in the Galapagos Archipelago. The Guadalupe fur seal (GFS) and Juan Fernández fur …

Systematic Review of Pinniped Sightings and Strandings Along the Pacific Coast of Colombia: Implications for Pinniped Conservation.

DC Barragán-Barrera, C Gálvez… - Aquatic …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
Sightings of pinnipeds in Colombian waters of the Pacific Ocean have sporadically been
reported since 1970. Despite the Colombian Pacific region (CPR) not being within their …

A new marine mammal assemblage from central Chile reveals the Pliocene survival of true seals in South America

A Benites-Palomino, AM Valenzuela-Toro… - Historical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The fossil record of marine mammals from the upper Pliocene of the western coast of South
America is poorly known, hindering our knowledge about how and when marine mammal …

[PDF][PDF] Records of Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) in the southern Mexican Pacific

A Romero-Tenorio, FRE Verplancken… - … American Journal of …, 2023 - lajamjournal.org
Antarctica (Hindell & McMahon, 2000; Hofmeyr, 2015). Most adult females feed in pelagic
zones, while adult males feed in both pelagic and benthic zones (Hindell et al., 1991). The …

The elephant seal: linking phenotypic variation with behavior and fitness in a sexually dimorphic phocid

RS Beltran, MA Hindell, CR McMahon - Ethology and behavioral ecology …, 2022 - Springer
Southern (Mirounga leonina) and northern elephant seals (M. angustirostris) are extreme in
nearly all aspects of their behavior, from fasting to fighting to diving to navigation. Behavioral …

[HTML][HTML] Primeros registros de elefantes marinos en el Pacífico colombiano:¿ Elefantes marinos del sur, Mirounga leonina?

IC Ávila, GA Trujillo, JJ Alava - Caldasia, 2021 - scielo.org.co
Se registraron los primeros avistamientos de elefantes marinos, probablemente elefantes
marinos del sur, Mirounga leonina, en la costa Pacífica de Colombia. Un juvenil macho fue …

Molecular Identification of a Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) from the Nayarit Coast, Mexico.

P Cerrillo-Espinosa, R Moncada-Cooley… - Aquatic …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on the molecular identification of a southern elephant seal (Mirounga
leonina) found on the Nayarit coast in Mexico. Topics include the increasing movement of …

Extreme dispersal or human-transport? The enigmatic case of an extralimital freshwater occurrence of a Southern elephant seal from Indiana

AM Valenzuela-Toro, MH Zicos, ND Pyenson - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Elephant seals (Mirounga spp.) are the largest living pinnipeds, and the spatial scales of
their ecology, with dives over 1 km in depth and foraging trips over 10,000 km long, are …

First Records of Pinnipeds (Otariidae) Along the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua.

J De Weerdt, EA Ramos… - Aquatic …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
The article informs about the first records of pinnipeds (Otariidae) along the Pacific Coast of
Nicaragua, addressing topics such as the influence of oceanographic conditions, prey …