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Diving seals and meditating yogis : strategic metabolic retreats

Title
Diving seals and meditating yogis : strategic metabolic retreats / Robert Elsner.
Author
Elsner, Robert
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Description
xiii, 177 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Seals (Animals) > Behavior
  • Diving
  • Metabolism > Regulation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-174) and index.
Contents
Strategic metabolic retreats -- Marine mammal divers -- Meditating yogis -- Cardiovascular and metabolic interactions in diving seals -- Regulatory mechanisms in the seal's dives -- The conditioning phenomenon -- Hibernation and diving -- Human divers -- Resistances to asphyxia.
Call Number
JFE 16-2470
ISBN
  • 9780226246710
  • 022624671X
  • 9780226247045 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014044791
OCLC
887849341
Author
Elsner, Robert, author.
Title
Diving seals and meditating yogis : strategic metabolic retreats / Robert Elsner.
Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-174) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 16-2470
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