Southern Elephant Seal Dive Behavior and Oxygen Consumption Data
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Description
Data from 34 adult female southern elephant seals on Macquarie Island, with nine individuals equipped with velocity time depth recorders. The dataset quantifies relationships between body size, dive duration, depth, swimming speed, and oxygen consumption. It was collected by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre for ASAC projects 857 and 589, with data last updated in March 1996.
Use Cases
Modeling the relationship between body size and dive duration using recorded seal measurements.
Analyzing the upper boundary of swimming speed against dive duration from velocity time depth recorder data.
Investigating the lack of relationship between body size and dive depth across the sampled seals.
Estimating metabolic rate variation by correlating activity levels with recorded swimming speed data.
Strengths
Includes data from 34 adult female southern elephant seals.
Contains detailed dive profiles from nine seals equipped with velocity time depth recorders.
Limitations
Sample size is limited to 34 individuals from a single location (Macquarie Island).
Data is temporally stale, last updated in 1996.
Data format is hexadecimal, requiring specific software (Instrument Helper) for interpretation.
Provenance
Source
Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AU_AADC) for ASAC projects 857 and 589.
Collection Method
Collected via Time Depth Recorders (TDRs) and velocity time depth recorders deployed on seals.
Geography
Macquarie Island.
Data is stored in hexadecimal format and requires 'Instrument Helper' software from Wildlife Computers to read. The dataset is the same as that collected for ASAC projects 857 and 589.