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fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

What 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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1 week ago

What California's big, gross elephant seals can teach us about life

Northern elephant seals are extreme animals that dive deepest, fast longest, and display dramatic breeding behaviors observable at Ano Nuevo State Park.
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3 weeks ago

Avian 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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