ABSTRACT

Suppose you were designing a marine mammal. What would you need to think about to allow it to live in the ocean? How would you keep it warm? What would you design to allow it to dive for very long periods to extreme depths? Where would it find water to drink? How would you minimize the cost of swimming, and how would it find its prey in the deep an

part |2 pages

Section I: Diving and Locomotion

part |2 pages

Section II: Nutrition and energetics

chapter 6|20 pages

Diet and Nutrition

chapter 7|30 pages

Water Balance

chapter 8|24 pages

Fasting

chapter 9|24 pages

Thermoregulation

part |2 pages

Section III: Reproduction

chapter 10|24 pages

Post-Partum

part |2 pages

Section IV: Sensory Systems

part |2 pages

Section V: Environmental Interactions