I’ve heard bellows echoing farther than that, an eerie call as darkness covers the beach. At a recent evening event at the Piedras Blancas light station, the elephant seal calls added to the ...

Long fasts, periods of not eating, are a feature of elephant seal life. Their mothers didn’t eat for the month they nursed the pups. Bulls on the beach may not eat for 100 days. This is the pups ...

(KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Mammal Program captured and relocated an elephant seal pup that was resting at Neskowin’s South Beach on March 19. Experts moved ...

The pups born this season have been weaned and are now making their way into the ocean. Some might not quite make it.

Young northern elephant seals can be seen in and around the Bay Area. The animals can be easily observed in their natural environment in three areas.

In the United States, elephant seals give birth from December to February ... During the month they spend guzzling their mother’s milk on the beach, they balloon to 300 pounds, “more than ...

Local experts are cautioning beachgoers to “share the shore” after a young elephant seal was found lounging on the Seaside ...

Weaners should get nice and fat, like one of these elephant seal pups. The other may be at risk when it leaves the beach at Piedras Blancas. Christine Heinrichs It’s never advisable to approach ...