Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...
Seals range in size from the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 45 kg (99 lb) Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[b] Several ...
Jaimie Cleeland who is the science manager for BAS’s King Edward Point Research Station on South Georgia says: “Understanding the size of the southern elephant seal population on and around So ...
Southern elephant seals are native to the cold waters of the ... and weigh approximately 500kg. Their significant size usually differentiates them from Cape fur seals, while the males are known ...
It will take decades before the numbers are back to the 2022 population size.” Falabella said the epidemic reversed decades of conservation efforts for the species, adding that most of the adult males ...