Subadult and juvenile animals arrive and the Drakes Beach colony can number close to nine hundred animals. (nps.gov)
Larvae grow into free - floating juvenile animals and eventually attach to the ocean bottom, where they grow to adulthood within 18 months. (sciencedaily.com)
Our natural study population in Amboseli National Park, Kenya is relatively undisturbed in comparison with the population in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa that was founded from young orphaned elephants introduced during the early 1980s and 1990s, following management culls of adult and older juvenile animals in the Kruger National Park [21, 22, 25]. (frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com)