Sentences with phrase «seal pup seasons»

By April, our busy elephant seal and harbor seal pup seasons were in full swing as well, and we were caring for a record number of patients onsite at our hospital in Sausalito, California: 291.

Within a few months, our busy elephant seal and harbor seal pup seasons were in full swing as well, and we were caring for a record number of patients on - site at our hospital in Sausalito, California: 291.

It's seal pupping season in Northern California, which means the pudgy mammals will be sunning themselves on the region's beaches.

As seal pup season begins on the California coast, visitors to Bay Area beaches are being asked to leave mothers and their young alone to avoid possible separations.

We're also right in the thick of peak harbor seal and elephant seal pup season, with more than 187 patients on - site today.

Seal pupping season is in full swing along the Sonoma County coast, and visitors to Goat Rock and similar beaches may find harbor seals spread comfortably on the shore nursing their newborn pups.

March 19, 2012 Seal Pupping Season - NPR - KQED - FM Harbor and elephant seals along the California coast have begun their pupping season, and experts with Marin County's Marine Mammal Center are urging people not to disturb seal pups they spot on the beach.

This paper does not document starving or dying bears but merely found some (5/9) that lost weight when they should have been gaining, given that early April is the start of the ringed seal pupping season (Smith 1987) and the intensive spring feeding period for polar bears (Stirling et al. 1981).

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They had asked the Court to order the City to comply with MMPA in any plan to remove the seals and also place a seasonal rope barrier at the beach to limit human interaction with the seals during pupping season.

The north trail is closed from March — June to protect the seal pups during birthing season.

SAUSALITO (CBS SF)-- During pupping season the Marin County - based Marine Mammal Center is helping abandoned and sick elephant and harbor seal pups with a «Leave Seals Be» campaign, according to center officials.

During pupping season the Marin County - based Marine Mammal Center is helping abandoned and sick elephant and harbor seal pups with a «Leave Seals Be» campaign, according to center officials.

By the time harbor seal pup Ernesto was spotted alone on a public beach along Monterey Bay, The Marine Mammal Center had already rescued more than 80 harbor seal pups during a record - breaking busy season.

On Wednesday, Jan. 25, she became the first elephant seal pup of the 2017 season to be rescued by volunteers for The Marine Mammal Center in San Luis Obispo County.

Female elephant seals show a main breeding strategy strongly constrained in time and space, produce a single pup per breeding season, and show a modest variation in breeding success among individuals.

The Northern Elephant Seal is the second largest species of seal and spends much of its life out at sea, but comes into shore two times a year, in the winter for the pupping / mating seaSeal is the second largest species of seal and spends much of its life out at sea, but comes into shore two times a year, in the winter for the pupping / mating seaseal and spends much of its life out at sea, but comes into shore two times a year, in the winter for the pupping / mating season.

Pupping season - the time of year when Northern elephant seal and harbor seal pups are born along the CA coast - has officially begun!

This grueling schedule is typical of our busy pupping season, which normally wouldn't start until March, when newly weaned elephant seal and harbor seal pups begin to show up here in need of a helping hand.

Drakes Beach Temporary Beach Closure - January 18 through March 15, 2017 A temporary closure of Drakes Beach starting approximately 1/4 mile southwest of the Kenneth C. Patrick Visitor Center and continuing south to the current permanent elephant seal closure was in effect to better protect elephant seals from disturbance during the pupping season when they are exceptionally vulnerable.

A temporary closure of Drakes Beach starting approximately 1/4 mile southwest of the Kenneth C. Patrick Visitor Center and continuing south to the current permanent elephant seal closure was in effect to better protect elephant seals from disturbance during the pupping season when they are exceptionally vulnerable.

Drakes Beach Temporary Beach Closure - January 27 through March 15, 2018 A temporary closure of Drakes Beach starting at the southern edge of the cove in front of the Ken Patrick Visitor Center and continuing south to the current permanent elephant seal closure was in effect to better protect elephant seals from disturbance during the pupping season when they are exceptionally vulnerable.

A temporary closure of Drakes Beach starting at the southern edge of the cove in front of the Ken Patrick Visitor Center and continuing south to the current permanent elephant seal closure was in effect to better protect elephant seals from disturbance during the pupping season when they are exceptionally vulnerable.

Tagged Arctic, Beaufort, Central Canadian Arctic, declining sea ice, fall, feeding, feeding platform, gorging, hunting, hyperphagia, Pilfold, polar bear, seal kills, seal pups, seasons, spring, Stirling, summer, terrestrial foods, winter

Partly because they give birth on mobile pack ice, harps have their pups earlier in the season than all other Arctic seals, which means that in some regions, they are a critical food source for polar bears that have eaten little over the winter months.