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Breeding Biology of Male Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonine) at South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Project No. 44 2002-2004
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Breeding Biology of Male Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonine) at South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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No. 44 2002-2004 ENGLISH Project in cooperation with Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA The Southern elephant seal is a polygynous, sexual dimorphic species in which males are 4 -10 times greater than females. Males begin to arrive at the start of the breeding season and fight each other in areas where females will settle to give birth. When pregnant females begin to arrive, they gather in groups called harems.
The result of the encounters between males is a dominance hierarchy at each breeding area, which reduces access to the grouped females to the highest-ranking males, thus allowing them to increase their breeding success. Male size is an important variable to take into account in this social structure; however, additional factors such as prior residence at the breeding area, male age, and time spent on the beach could also be variables that affect male social rank in the dominance hierarchy and thus male breeding success.
By combining different techniques (paternity analyses, body measurements, daily censuses) we propose to study the breeding biology of southern elephant seals at Stranger Point, King George Island, identifying potential different strategies displayed by males to increase their breeding success. SPANISH Biologia reproductiva de machos de elefante marino del sur (Mirounga leonina) en las Islas Shetland del Sur, Antartica.
(Proyecto en cooperacion con la Universidad Nacional de La Plata) Director: Lic. Alejandro Carlini Co-Director: --- Resumen del Proyecto: El elefante marino del sur es una especie poligamica y sexualmente dimorfica en la cual los machos son entre 4 y 10 veces mas pesados que las hembras. Durante la estacion reproductiva los machos adultos compiten por el acceso a las hembras y como resultado de esta competencia se establece una jerarquizacion de los individuos dentro y en las proximidades de los harenes.
El tamano parece ser una variable de gran importancia en dicha jerarquizacion pero otros factores, entre ellos el arribo temprano a la colonia, la edad y el tiempo de permanencia tambien podrian afectarla y por lo tanto hacer lo propio con el exito reproductivo. Ademas es posible que machos de diferentes jerarquias adopten distintas estrategias con el objeto de maximizar la probabilidad de fecundar hembras. Combinando diferentes metodologias (analisis de paternidad por microsatelites, medidas corporales, analisis de sonogramas y monitoreos periodicos a lo largo de la estacion reproductiva) se propone estudiar la biolog?a reproductiva de los machos de la especie, en la colonia situada en Punta Stranger, Isla 25 de Mayo, a fin de identificar las posibles estrategias individuales empleadas por ellos para maximizar su exito reproductivo.
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