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 ...
An outbreak of avian flu in 2023 hammered a colony of southern elephant seals in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego region, leading to a 50% decline in its population. But over the 2024-2025 breeding season, ...
At the end of 2023, an outbreak of avian flu devastated a colony of southern elephant seals in Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula. It may take a century for the population to return to the 18,000 breeding ...
“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...
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 ...
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