...Erwan Piot; Baptiste Picard; Jérôme Badaut; Caroline Gilbert; Christophe Guinet ABSTRACT Among pinnipeds, southern elephant seals (SESs, Mirounga leonina ) are extreme divers that dive deeply and continuously along foraging trips to restore their body stores after fasting on land during breeding...

...: Description of a new measurement method and its successful application to deep-diving elephant seals, showing that these predators attempt to catch mesopelagic prey that react with bright anti-predator flashes. Anti-predator tactic Bioluminescence Biologging Mirounga leonina Foraging ecology...

...Gaëtan Richard; Jade Vacquié-Garcia; Joffrey Jouma’a; Baptiste Picard; Alexandre Génin; John P. Y. Arnould; Frédéric Bailleul; Christophe Guinet Mature female southern elephant seals ( Mirounga leonina ) come ashore only in October to breed and in January to moult, spending the rest of the year...

...K. A. Bennett; B. J. Mcconnell; M. A. Fedak ABSTRACT This study seeks to understand how the physiological constraints of diving may change on a daily and seasonal basis. Dive data were obtained from southern elephant seals ( Mirounga leonina ) from South Georgia using satellite relay data loggers...