Marine scientists solve mystery behind decapitations of seal pups …
The teams still do not know why the coyotes only eat the pups’ heads — or why they only attack the elephant seals’ flippers. “For all the pups we saw with injured flippers, there were no ...
Scientists Describe Surprising New Male Elephant Seal Behavior
2024年10月10日 · The alpha male elephant seal presiding over the small group of nearly 40 females on that stretch of beach was about 30 feet away from the distressed female. As Allen and Lau watched, he approached the female, touched his nose to her side, and then charged into the water towards the struggling pup about 130 feet out.
A Two-Ton Lifeguard That Saved a Young Pup - The New York Times
2024年2月7日 · In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal from drowning.
California seal pups were turning up headless. Experts finally ...
2023年12月23日 · Again and again since at least 2015, the mysterious — and gruesome — deaths kept occurring, primarily involving harbor seal pups at MacKerricher State Park, not far from Fort Bragg in Mendocino...
Scientists ID mystery killer of decapitated seals found on California ...
2023年12月28日 · Annual closures are currently in place at Point Reyes National Seashore until March 31, 2024, to protect elephant seal pups from disturbance during pupping season, the park's website says....
January: Pups, Pups, Pups! – Bringing Forth the Next Generation
2021年1月27日 · She has observed that, during the four weeks of nursing, elephant seal cows "make a lot of noise" to encourage their pups to recognize and imprint on them through their unique vocalizations. Cows give birth to just one pup, but occasionally pups get separated from their mothers or inexperienced mothers might abandon their pups.
How a series of gruesome seal deaths on the California coast led ...
2023年12月23日 · Sarah Codde, a marine ecologist with the National Park Service at Point Reyes National Seashore, has found that coyotes are also attacking young elephant seals. Coyotes were known to make meals...
Male Elephant Seal Saves Drowning Pup in Rare Act of ... - Gizmodo
2024年2月9日 · In a recently published paper in the journal Marine Mammal Science, the authors describe how they were walking along the shore on a sunny day in January, 2022, when they noticed a female seal...
Aggressive and maternal activities of female southern elephant seals ...
1982年2月1日 · Elephant seal breeding assemblies are much more crowded than those of grey seals, and the chances of the pup being injured by alien females or separated from its mother are conse- quently greater. In the present study, most orphaned pups were very small when first observed, which suggests that they were separated from their mothers soon after ...
An unprecedented flu strain is attacking hundreds of animal …
2024年1月16日 · The beaches of Valdes Peninsula in Argentina, normally so packed with elephant seals that time of year it is impossible to stroll along the shore, were desolate except for hundreds of dark, rotting carcasses— nearly a whole season of …