Female southern elephant seals are also ... type studies to continue building our knowledge of male southern elephant seal specialization and its impacts." More information: A Cormack et al ...

The female then rebuffed him and continued calling ... This observation was very direct.” “Normal elephant seal male behavior is they basically don’t even acknowledge the pups’ existence ...

This question led her to pursue a Ph.D. on what she described as “one of the most sexually dimorphic species on the planet—the northern elephant seal.” As Kienle explained, male and female elephant ...

“This male was fasting. They really try to conserve ... calling,” the study said. A female elephant seal splashed after the pup on the beach and called to it, but could not reach the pup.

A female elephant seal has launched herself ... This visit follows the recent sighting of Buffel, a well-known male southern elephant seal, near Duiker Island in Hout Bay.

In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal ... they noticed a young pup resting with an adult female close to the water.

(Marcela Uhart, UC Davis) On occasion, elephant seals breed among sea lions. Here, an adult male elephant seal and a female with her black-coated pup in the background, are surrounded by sea lions in ...

Camps Bay beach has an unexpected visitor – a female southern elephant seal who has hauled out onto the sand to moult. In this process, which takes about a month, the seal sheds and replaces ...

"A coordinated rescue plan is currently in action in Gordon's Bay to help the sub-adult male elephant seal safely return to his ocean home," the Cape of Good Hope SPCA said on social media.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn ... effort to get him back to sea. The two-ton seal, which an animal welfare group said was a young male, was making his way through a suburb of Gordon's ...

"They could have the pick of the buffet, and yet each male southern elephant seal eats a lot of the same ... dwarfing their more placid, smaller female counterparts. Instead, researchers analyse ...