The spectacle runs from mid-December through March, drawing wildlife watchers eager for a glimpse of the largest seals on the ...
The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s largest mainland-breeding colonies for the Northern Elephant Seal, and breeding ...
Each winter, thousands of massive northern elephant seals gather at California’s Año Nuevo State Park for their breeding ...
What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...
Mature bull elephant seals, foraging at sea for the past ten or twelve weeks, will start arriving a tPiedras Blancas any day. They are at their biggest and loudest now. They are ready for action. The ...
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals' population range has been shifting. Once ...
Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...