Measures of Oxygen Consumption and Stroke Frequency of a Captive Subadult Female Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) while Resting in Water and Swimming and Diving in a Metabolic Water Flume, Oregon Zoo, 2017

Description

This dataset contains measures of oxygen consumption and stroke frequency from 1 captive subadult female polar bear (166.5 kg) resting in the water (n = 7 sessions) and swimming and diving in a metabolic swim flume with water circulated at approximately 0.6 km/hr during swimming and diving measurements (n = 6 sessions) in September 2017.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P98IQWT4
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC195.xml

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  • environment
  • biota
  • wildlife
  • physiology
  • bears
  • marine-mammals
  • mammals
  • usgs-asc195
  • ursus-maritimus
  • kinematics
  • animals-vertebrates
  • carnivores
  • polar-bear
  • energetics

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