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fromThe Mercury News
2 months agoWhat California's big, gross elephant seals can teach us about life
What can an elephant seal - a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle - teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. "The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme," says Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. "They're the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive for longer than any other seal or sea lion. They also fast for longer. Everything they do is just pushing the limits."
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2 months agoAvian flu decimates the world's largest population of elephant seals: Half of the females have disappeared
Highly pathogenic avian influenza 2.3.4.4b jumped to mammals and caused catastrophic declines, eliminating over 50,000 female southern elephant seals on South Georgia.
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