Elephant seal - Wikipedia
Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga. Both species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), were hunted to the brink of extinction for oil by the end of the 19th century, but their numbers have since recovered. They can weigh up to ...
Curious Baby Elephant Seal - YouTube
2010年4月3日 · A baby elephant seal curious, brave, and too comfortable with and among people it turns out. Petermann island, Antarctica. Below is a longer description in ...
Elephant Seal Fact Sheet | Blog | Nature - PBS
2022年1月21日 · After an 11-month pregnancy, a female gives birth to a single pup in late winter. When elephant seals are born, they can weigh up to 79 pounds and reach lengths up to 4 feet. The mother nurses...
Baby Elephant Seals Learn Survival Skills, Like Holding Their ... - KQED
2022年7月1日 · After elephant seal mothers give birth in winter, they feed their pups milk for about a month before returning to the ocean to hunt. These youngsters at Año Nuevo State Park in spring 2022 have four to six weeks to practice the skills they need to …
INCREDIBLE Encounter with Friendly Baby Elephant Seal
On an expedition to Antarctica with Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris, the group stopped at Livingston Island where an adorable elephant seal pup came to say hello...
Learning to swim, elephant seal style - Natural Reserve System
2019年2月11日 · For the first time, researchers at the University of California have tracked the diving behavior of northern elephant seal pups on their inaugural journeys into the open ocean. Like videos of a toddler’s baby steps, the recordings show the 300-pound youngsters learning to dive, hunt, nap, and navigate at sea entirely on their own.
'Unprecedented' Elephant Seal Birth Recorded in Brazil - Yahoo
2024年10月17日 · Researchers in Garopaba, Brazil, made what they called the “unprecedented” discovery of a baby elephant seal on Friday, October 11, Instituto Australis said. Footage recorded by researchers at...
Elephant Seal - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on Animalia.bio
After a gestation period of 7-9 months for Southern elephant seals and 10-12 months for Northern elephant seals, a single pup is born. Pups are generally weaned at around 20-27 days, when the female will remain with her new pup, giving it large quantities of fatty, rich milk, relying on the thick blubber of her body for sustenance.
Elephant Seals - National Geographic
Sea elephants, as these seals are sometimes called, give birth in late winter to a single pup and nurse it for approximately a month. While suckling their young, females do not eat—both mother...
Orphaned elephant seal pup finds a new mom - YouTube
2023年7月7日 · Orphaned Elephant Seal pup finds surrogate Mom. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe#NatGeoWILD #AmericasNationalParksThe National Geographic Societ...