Bird flu slams seals and sea lions at the bottom of the world but spares Pacific Coast so far

The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal ...
The Monterey County Herald

Hollywood comes for the Bay Area’s elephant seal pups

Ferocious human-like monsters that battle hobbits and heroes in the blockbuster film “The Fellowship of the Ring” owe their voices to a serendipitous drive into the fog-swept Marin Headlands and a Bay ...
insider.si.edu

Diving companions: sea lion, elephant seal, walrus [by] Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Diolé. Translated from the French by J. F. Bernard

Translation of Compagnons de plongée. DIVING COMPANIONS: SEA LION ELEPHANT SEAL WALRUS BY JACQUESYVES COUSTEAU AND PHILIPPE DIOLÉ TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY J F BERNARD ...
Mongabay

Seal ‘oceanographers’ reveal fish abundance in Pacific Ocean’s twilight zone

The open ocean’s twilight zone, a vast deep ecosystem rich in fish biomass, is poorly understood because it is expensive and challenging for humans to reach its depths 200–1000 meters (660–3,280 feet) ...