CALIFORNIA PARKS : ELEPHANT SEALS
Excerpt: By 1892 only 50 to 100 individuals were left. The only remaining colony was on the Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California.
In 1922, the Mexican government gave protected status to elephant seals, and the U.S. government followed suit a few years later when the seals began to appear in Southern California waters. Since that time, elephant seals have continued to multiply exponentially, and they have extended their breeding range as far north as Point Reyes. Today there are approximately 200,000 Northern Elephant Seals. ...
At sea elephant seals typically dive 20 minutes to a depth of 1,000 to 2,000 feet in search of food: rays, skates. rat fish, squid, and small sharks. The maximum recorded depth is 5,592 feet. The females eat nothing while they are giving birth, nursing, and mating, and the males go without food for up to three months at a time. They are preyed upon by killer whales and sharks.
ADULT MALES ARE THERE NOW...
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