Sensing Habitat Use by Ice-associated Seals; from Dog Noses to Satellite Observations
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Extant marine mammals represent multiple recolonizations of the marine environment by terrestrial mammals. Freed from the constraints of terrestrial locomotion, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses) diversified and spread throughout the world’s oceans. For those animals, land masses represented barriers, and their evolutionary history has been strongly influenced by tectonic events that opened and closed numerous seaways [1].
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