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| Galapagos sea lion pup, Punta Espinosa. Image ID: 01611 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | Guadalupe fur seal pup sits on brown rocks along the coastline of Guadalupe Island. Image ID: 02441 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Guadalupe fur seal mother and pup. Image ID: 02440 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Pacific harbor seal, mother and pup. Image ID: 15750 Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Pacific harbor seal, mother and pup. Image ID: 15752 Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Northern elephant seal, mother and neonate pup, gulls eating placenta. Image ID: 00945 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Guadalupe fur seal, San Benito Islands. Image ID: 02103 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | A Pacific harbor seal pup hauls out on a sandy beach. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image ID: 02162 Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Guadalupe fur seals, two males fighting, Islas San Benito. Image ID: 02296 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico |
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| California sea lion pup starving during 1997-8 El Nino event, Coronado Islands. Image ID: 02417 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico | Galapagos sea lion pup nursing. Image ID: 02427 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: Sombrero Chino, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador | California sea lion mother and pup. Image ID: 02976 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Guadalupe fur seal, juvenile. Image ID: 10321 Species: Guadalupe fur seal, Arctocephalus townsendi Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico | Pacific harbor seal pup. Image ID: 15763 Species: Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Galapagos sea lion pup, Sullivan Bay. Image ID: 01658 Species: Galapagos sea lion, Zalophus californianus wollebacki, Zalophus californianus wollebaeki Location: James Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador |
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| Elephant seal mother and pup vocalize to one another constantly, likely to reassure the pup and confirm the maternal identity on a crowded beach. Central California. Image ID: 15421 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Elephant seal pup scratches its face with its foreflipper. Note the five "fingernails" on the flipper. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 20404 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Northern elephant seal, pup. Image ID: 00948 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Mother elephant seal and her pup. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 15422 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Elephant seal pup nurses. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 15419 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Having just given birth moments before, a mother elephant seal barks at seagulls that are feasting on the placenta and birth tissues. The pup is unharmed; the interaction is a common one between elephant seals and gulls. Winter, Central California. Image ID: 15481 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Mother elephant seal and her pup. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 20402 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | An enormous male elephant seal dwarfs a tiny pup. The bull is not interested in the pup and will typically ignore the pup, but the bull will not hesitate to run the pup over as it moves through the crowd on the beach. Image ID: 20403 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Mother elephant seal and her pup. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 20405 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Juvenile northern elephant seal, underwater, San Benito Islands. Image ID: 10034 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | Northern elephant seal, underwater, San Benito Islands. Image ID: 10035 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: San Benito Islands (Islas San Benito), Baja California, Mexico | Mother elephant seal and her pup. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 15418 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Elephant seal mother and pup vocalize to one another constantly, likely to reassure the pup and confirm the maternal identity on a crowded beach. Central California. Image ID: 15420 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | An adult male elephant seal, rushing to attack another male intruding on his territory, tramples a tiny pup. Pups experience a high mortality rate, including injury, separation from mother, being washed into the ocean and abandonment. Image ID: 15423 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA | Elephant seal pup. The pup will nurse for 27 days, when the mother stops lactating and returns to the sea. The pup will stay on the beach 12 more weeks until it becomes hungry and begins to forage for food. Image ID: 15476 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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