Overview: A unique synthesis across the decades, of advances in behavioral studies.Explores the challenges for mammals that live on both land and at sea.Authored by international experts at the forefront of the.This book is focused on the marine mammalian groups the Otariidae and the Odobenidae, otherwise known as fur seals, sea lions and the walrus. In 30 chapters, more than 60 authors from 30 institutions and 13 nationalities, discuss a broad suite of topics from maternal care and mating behavior, through play, cognition and personality, to adaptation to life in the Anthropocene. The authors
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