Skip to main content
. 2018 Apr 2;8(8):4340–4351. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3983

Table 1.

Mass, pup status and pup mass, measurement interval, time at sea, total body water (TBW), water influx, and estimates of CO2 production and field metabolic rate (FMR) of 15 adult female California sea lions from San Nicolas and San Miguel Islands

Sea lion ID Initial mass (kg) Final mass (kg) Pup Pup mass (kg) Interval (days) Time at sea (days) TBW (%) H2O influx (ml/kg/day) CO2 (ml/g/hr) FMR (W) FMR (W/kg)
Nagy Speakman Nagy Speakman Nagy Speakman
San Nicolas
C2 85.4 81.2 Y 22.2 7.2 4.1 65.0 174 0.449 0.233 245.3 127.0 2.94 1.52
C3 78.0 75.4 Y 8.1 4.2 64.7 154 0.763 0.545 383.7 274.2 5.00 3.58
C8 59.8 63.4 Y 13.0 9.0 6.6 66.6 172 0.997 0.743 402.5 300.4 6.53 4.88
C12 78.4 79.4 U 17.1 11.0 47.5 129 1.045 0.836 540.6 432.6 6.85 5.48
C14 86.2 76.0 U 11.9 8.4 64.0 83 0.774 0.628 411.5 334.1 5.07 4.12
C16 94.2 87.0 Y 14.1 8.8 63.5 130 0.880 0.678 522.7 402.9 5.77 4.45
C18 86.0 84.8 Y 11.1 7.3 65.1 139 0.713 0.510 399.1 285.6 4.67 3.34
C20 82.8 76.2 U 10.1 4.8 62.1 77 0.544 0.420 283.4 219.0 3.56 2.75
C22 95.4 83.2 Y 8.3 11.2 7.3 63.0 127 0.969 0.763 567.4 446.7 6.35 5.00
San Miguel
WAF2001 84.5 72.0 Y 19.0 3.8 2.2 63.2 85 0.664 0.527 340.8 270.2 4.35 3.45
WAF2002 85.2 79.8 Y 13.0 9.9 7.1 62.9 142 0.606 0.415 327.7 224.3 3.97 2.72
WAF2007 81.8 80.2 Y 14.8 5.9 4.9 63.6 150 0.791 0.578 420.2 306.7 5.19 3.79
WAF2010 75.6 74.0 Y 16.6 4.8 2.8 64.0 124 0.756 0.571 370.6 279.9 4.95 3.74
WAF2018 86.9 79.6 Y 19.8 10.8 5.4 64.4 122 0.662 0.486 361.5 265.3 4.34 3.18
WAF2025 78.9 77.9 Y 17.2 8.1 5.8 63.4 170 0.855 0.614 439.5 315.7 5.61 4.03

Pup refers to whether a female was observed nursing a pup (Y) or whether her pup status was unknown (U).

CO2 production and FMR were calculated using equations from Nagy (1980) and Speakman et al. (1993).