Featured Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons By: Sarah Sharkey In California’s Point Reyes National Seashore, the rangers are in a constant battle with elephant seals. These large seals love to take up all the space on the beach right next to the visitor center. Typically, the rangers shoo these seals away by waving a tarp at…
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This Has To Be The Laziest Elephant Seal Of All Time
Featured Image Credit: Marc Moritsch, National Geographic Creative By Jessie Kittel If you’re ever feeling like an insomniac, just channel your inner elephant seal. In the video below, an (obviously) very sleepy pinniped was captured on camera contentedly napping on the beach by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, as reported on abc13.com. In his cozy bed…
Read MoreElephant Seals Are Sneaky And Greedy But That’s Why We Love Them
Featured Image Credit: http://elelur.com/mammals/elephant-seal.html By Eva Gruber Elephant seals are by far some of the most amazing marine mammals on the planet. Most people know these animals for the absurd appearance of a full bull elephant seal, but given some of their coolest natural history facts, you’ll definitely see them in a new light. There…
Read MoreCamp Cove Watches Sea Lion And Elephant Seal Swim To Freedom
Featured Image Credit: Mark Rightmire, the Orange County Register By Kira Krall On Wednesday, August 2nd, two former rehabilitation patients at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach were released back into the wild. Five-O the elephant seal and Barker the sea lion were sent off by Center staff and the Camp Cove kids…
Read MoreColonies Of Elephant Seals Join Forces Amid Habitat Degradation
Featured Image Credit: Mike Baird via Wikimedia By Emily Persico The past forty years have been tough ones for elephant seals. After being hunted to near extinction pre-1970s, elephant seals finally gained legal protection just to be battered by El Niño storms right as their population was rebounding. Elephant seals and their habitat have taken…
Read MoreLet’s Talk About The Elephant Seal In The Room
Featured Image Credit: MyrtleBeachOnline According to researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Phyllis is no ordinary elephant seal. Director Patrick Robinson says that the researches at UC Santa Cruz have been tracking the marine mammals for close to 22 years. Over those two decade, the team has managed to collect the largest diving…
Read MoreElephant Seals Are Sneaky and Greedy and We Love Them
Seriously – how cool are elephant seals?
Read MoreVideo: Elephant Seal Birthing Season
Check out this video of this elephant seal rookery on the California coast.
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