Sentences with phrase «elephant seal colony»

This video chronicles a year in the life of the fast - growing elephant seal colony at Point Piedras Blancas, California.

The animal was to be immediately transported to Point Reyes National Seashore at Chimney Rock, where there is an established elephant seal colony, Rulli said.

A wayward elephant seal that had been attempting to cross Highway 37 near San Pablo Bay since Monday afternoon was sedated Tuesday by wildlife officials, who found the animal to be pregnant and announced plans to relocate her to an elephant seal colony along the Marin County coast.

Park staff are locating oiled birds reported near the elephant seal colony and one other location.

The southern elephant seal is found in the Southern Hemisphere on islands such as South Georgia and Macquarie Island, and on the coasts of New Zealand, South Africa, and Argentina in the Peninsula Valdés, which is the fourth - largest elephant seal colony in the world.

The adjacent State Parks have extensive docent programs (including docent lead tours to the elephant seal colony during the months of December through March in Ano Nuevo State Reserve), outreach and interpretive facilities, parking, and an on - site ranger presence to assist with management and enforcement.

The park's task is to balance the expansion of the elephant seal colony while providing for the health of other species.

Over several years studying an elephant seal colony in Año Nuevo State Park, California, the researchers were able to recognize many of the individual animals just by the rhythm of their voices, he says.

Visit one of the world's largest elephant seal colonies in San Simeon.

Not exact matches

The first stop is a colony of elephant seals, and then there's there's a penguin rookery.

These elephant seals are mostly adolescents, and while a few may pup this year around here, it is not a large breeding colony.

Giant elephant seals haul out in huge colonies on beaches near Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, north of Cambria.

In late May, reporters and photographers from the magazine visited uninhabited San Miguel Island, the westernmost of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands, famous for its colonies of elephant seals and sea lions.

[121][122] Dominant female elephant seals stay in the center of the colony where they are more likely to mate with a dominant male, while peripheral females are more likely to mate with subordinates.

- a study of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) of Sea Lion Island, the main breeding colony of this species in the Falkland Islands, started in 1995 and carried out for more than twenty years

Describes elephant seals with particular emphasis on the Piedras Blancas colony on the central coast of California.

[2] Castle Rock is the northernmost breeding colony of northern elephant seals, which like harbor seals breed on the island; California sea lions and Steller sea lions use the island as a haul - out [3] but do not breed there.

From December through March, a breeding colony of elephant seals can be observed from Elephant Seal Overlook near Chimney Rock, above beautiful Drakes Bay.

On this delightful expedition exploring this seldom - visited corner of the planet, encounter South Georgia's wildlife including fur seals, elephant seals, and massive colonies of the colorful king penguins.