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Southern elephant seals are adaptable—but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals' population range has been shifting. Once ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel

Tracey Weiss, Our Ocean Backyard | Welcoming the elephant seals and changing tides

As autumn turns to winter on the Central Coast, one of the markers of the changing season is the return of the northern elephant seals to beaches south of Big Sur and just north of Monterey Bay at Año ...
Los Angeles Times

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

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. H5N1 bird flu is devastating marine mammals in the Southern Hemisphere, with some elephant seal colonies suffering ...
The Conversation

Southern elephant seals are adaptable – but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts

Nic Rawlence receives funding from the Marsden Fund. Mark de Bruyn received funding from a Griffith University New Investigator grant. Michael Knapp does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...