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Northern elephant seals have adapted to sleep and dive at the same time all while avoiding predators. New research, based on the recorded brainwaves of the seals, revealed the marine mammals get ...

Irate males guffaw loudly through their ginormous proboscises beside dozing female elephant seals who nurse their dark-hued offspring while absorbing. No paywalls. No subscriptions.

Storms sweep newborn elephant seals that can’t yet swim out to sea, CA officials say By Brooke Baitinger. January 17, 2023 6:50 PM. Heather Jensen National Park Service. The series ...

Elephant seals survive on only two hours of sleep. Why can’t we? ... The animals swim and dive almost constantly for about seven months straight, never once going ashore to rest.

Elephant seals sleep about 10 hours a day on the beach, but during months-long foraging trips at sea they average just 2 hours of sleep per day. These 2-month-old northern elephant seals are sleeping ...

To find out how elephant seals avoid waking up in the maw of an orca or a shark, ... “They dive down, stop swimming and begin to glide,” Dr. Kendall-Bar said.

The series of huge storms that hit California’s coast killed off a number of newborn elephant seals in the Bay Area, marine mammal ecologists say. Ecologists are still taking stock of exactly ...

VICTORIA — Emerson the elephant seal is back in Victoria after defying attempts to relocate him and swimming more than 200 kilometres to return to his preferred urban habitat to moult.