Links
Elephant Seals - General information
About Northern Elephant Seals.
Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
About Northern Elephant Seals.
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheris Service, NOAA - Fisheries
Website that accompanies the video Ocean Oasis.
Oasis Marine Guia de Campo Mirounga angustirostris Northern Elephant Seal, Elefante Marino del Norte
Website that accompanies the video Ocean Oasis, in Spanish.
Breeding colonies and places to see elephant seals
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
California State Parks
Slideshow tour.
Big Sur Chamber of Commerce
Behavior
California State Parks
Tagging
Real-time and historical maps showing location of tagged animals.
Satellite tracking services used to monitor tagged animals.
Human diving problems
Merck Manuals
Species and conservation status
NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources
Conservation groups
"Promoting stewardship and understanding of the rich marine life and unique marine environment of the Central Coast"
Impact of Ocean Warming
Scientific article that documents decline of mean annual weaning weight of pups "from 1975 to the late 1990s, a period characterized by a large-scale, basin-wide warm decadal regime that included multiple strong or long-duration El Niños; and increased with a return to a cool decadal regime from about 1999 to 2004. Increased foraging effort and decreased mass gain of adult females, indicative of reduced foraging success and nutritional stress, were associated with high ocean temperatures."
Burney J. Le Boeuf and Daniel E. Crocker,
About the researchers and their work
Blog from Scripps researcher Paul Ponganis and his gradaute students, including our elephant seal researcher Jessica Meir, at Penguin Ranch, Antarctica.
Video
Documentary film.
Wharton Media
Documentary film - "a giant-screen film, is a fascinating journey into the bountiful seas and pristine deserts of two remarkably different, but inextricably linked worlds � Mexico's Sea of Cort�s and the Baja California desert." Includes footage of Northern Elephant Seals. Available on DVD and VHS.
Images
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheris Service, NOAA - Fisheries
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alessandra Pesce,1 Martino Bolognesi,1a Alessio Bocedi,2 Paolo Ascenzi,2 Sylvia Dewilde,3 Luc Moens,3 Thomas Hankeln,4 and Thorsten Burmester5
Online vews and magazine articles
msnbc
Miscellaneous
Skulls Unlimited International, Inc.