It’s easy to confuse two animals. Believe me, I do it much too often. I’m talking leopard vs. cheetah or emu vs. ostrich. But ...

They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur ... southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[ ...

Year after year, animals return to these calm, protected waters to mate and raise their young. Large colonies of sea lions and elephant seals line miles of coastal beaches, while southern right ...

Hundreds of elephant ... sea — leaving the pups to survive on their blubber for about three months before they take their first journey into the ocean. The pup answers their mother, but neither ...

Elephant seal bulls are washing up at San Simeon Cove ... Waves threaten to wash pups out to sea. Every day brings challenges. Take lots of pictures, and bring home those stories to tell.

While elephant seals are certainly the main attraction during a visit to San Simeon, they’re far from the only animal that can be ... shoreline and search for sea stars, hermit crabs and all ...

is the larger of the two species of elephant seal, and is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia, a group of carnivorous marine mammals that includes seals, sea lions and walrus. Southern ...