The Audiophiles » elephant seals http://www.theaudiophiles.net Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:43:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Northern Elephant Seal http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2008/02/22/the-northern-elephant-seal/ http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2008/02/22/the-northern-elephant-seal/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:13:33 +0000 nick http://www.theaudiophiles.net/2008/02/22/the-northern-elephant-seal/ The Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery is at the southern end of Big Sur, along Highway 1 on California’s coast. Elephant seals starting showing up there in the fall of 1990. There were fewer than two dozen of them at the time. The following spring brought about 400 seals to the area for molting. Now, the rookery is home to more than 16 thousand elephant seals throughout the year.

I was there in mid-February, while the new pups were weaning, and took some photos.

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