Diving seals and meditating yogis : strategic metabolic retreats /
Robert Elsner.
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.