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‘Welcome to the world’: Season’s first elephant seal pup at Point Reyes seashore
Most pregnant elephant seals deliver a single pup weighing about 70 pounds at birth. At Drakes Beach, the colony can surpass 600 by early February. Female elephant seals nurse their pups for a ...
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LOOK: Female elephant seal makes pit stop on Camps Bay beach
A female elephant seal has launched herself out onto the sand at Camps Bay to undergo moulting, creating quite a spectacle for passers-by. The energy-intensive process, which takes about a month ...
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ODFW removes elephant seal from popular Oregon beach ahead of spring break
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Mammal Program captured and relocated an elephant seal pup that was ...
Southern elephant seals are adaptable—but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes ...