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American mink forage on land and in water, with aquatic prey often constituting a large proportion of their diet. Their long, thin body shape and relatively poor insulation make them vulnerable to heat loss, particularly in water, yet some individuals dive over 100 times a day. At the level of individual dives, previous research found no difference in dive depth or duration, or the total number of dives per day between seasons, but mink did appear to make more dives p...
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Animal Biotelemetry Journal website
- Volume:
- 3
- Publication date:
- 2015-06-05
- DOI:
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2050-3385
- ISSN:
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2050-3385
- Pubs id:
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pubs:640168
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uri:85804dca-1498-4ca8-bcb4-771b7271e11b
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85804dca-1498-4ca8-bcb4-771b7271e11b
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- Bagniewska et al
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- © 2015 Bagniewska et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Persistence in diving American mink
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