Elephant seal milk, which can be seen on this female with a pup about 3 weeks old, is 55% fat. The females rely entirely on stored energy reserves during the four weeks they spend nursing their ...

Elephant seal pupping season at Point Reyes National Seashore has begun with the birth of the first pup, park officials announced. “Welcome to the world little one!” the park’s Facebook ...

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

PORTLAND, Ore. (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.

Winter, the first pup of the season, was born on Dec. 8, Heinrichs said in her most recent column. At birth, elephant seal pups weigh about 70 pounds and are about 3 feet long. At Piedras Blancas ...

Elephant seal pups are only a month or two old ... Weaning is abrupt: the mother simply leaves the pup on the beach, mates with one or more bulls and swims back into the ocean.

Elephant seal carcasses line the beach at Punta Delgada in Argentina on Oct. 10, 2023 following an outbreak of HPAI avian influenza that killed about 97% of all pups born that year. Disclaimer ...

Mother elephant seals are believed able to identify their own pup by the sounds they make within two or three days of giving birth, but newborns are not known to pick their mothers out of the crowd.

The Center’s hospital in Sausalito is currently dominated by elephant seal pup patients. This pile of elephant seal weaners includes some that still have their birth blackcoats and some that ...