Researchers using a new type of tracking device on female elephant seals have discovered that adding body fat helps the seals dive more efficiently by changing their buoyancy. The study, published ...

Camps Bay beach in Cape Town has become the temporary home of a rare and fascinating visitor - a female Southern elephant ...

A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. Using remotely piloted aerial systems (RPAS) to ...

Piedras Blancas is four miles north of Hearst Castle along Highway 1. You could visit in one long day but better if you could make it ...

Southern elephant seals are the deepest diving seal in the world and mostly feed on a diet of squid. They are known as 'elephant' seal due to their large 'trunk', or proboscis which is used to ...

Researchers have developed increasingly sophisticated tags for tracking the movements and diving behavior of migrating elephant seals. Tags are attached harmlessly onto the animals' fur and ...

Answering these questions and many more, this book is the result of the author's 50-year study of elephant seals. The chapters cover a broad range of topics including diving, feeding, migration and ...