Hearst San Simeon State Park is seeking volunteers to serve as docents at the Piedras Blancas rookery, where […] ...

This audio recording is a natural threat call of a northern elephant seal followed by four modified signals (pulse rate slowed down by 0.15 Hz and 1 Hz, centroid of the frequency spectrum shifted ...

UC Santa Cruz A northern elephant seal mother moves towards a speaker playing the sound of her pup's call "It was dramatic - we see the recognition after just a day or two," said Dr Casey.

Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...

Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, is among 50 people from around the ...

It’s one of Northern California’s most famous wildlife shows. Every year, up to 10,000 elephant seals — the giant, blubbery pinnipeds that can weigh 5,000 pounds, grow as long as a Toyota ...

Some seal pups have already been born nearby. Rangers say the elephant seal's journey to Northern California is the largest marine mammal migration on earth. "Twice a year, these elephant seals ...