Friday, June 07, 2013

I love me some elephant seals!


Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) at the Piedras Blancas rookery in San Simeon, California.
Copyright (c) 2013 Wendee Nicole



I downloaded the images of the elephant seals I took at Piedras Blancas rookery last week and wanted to post them because they are just So Darn Cute! They are all or mostly subadults, I believe, but you could tell the males are just super cantankerous and like to get all up in eachother's grills. They must be instinctively fighting and standing up for their rights (to parrrrtttttyyy!! Just kidding - Beastie Boys took over for a few minutes), because when one would slither by - moving very much like an inchworm - another would challenge it. I could have watched them for hours. There was one fairly big guy in the water fighting with whoever would go out there, but most of the seals were on the beach just chillaxing. Once they would fight for a while, they would lie down like old friends. Funny dudes! These are just randomly placed on the blog, without captions. Enjoy! And if you really want to see them, Friends of the Elephant Seal has a live webcam!


















2 comments:

CrazyCris said...

Fabulous photos!

Those guys are IMPRESSIVE! Quite a coincidence, I just found out from another blogging friend yesterday that there are elephant seals in California... I always thought of them in South America!

Great timing of this post, it's World Oceans Day!!! You should be participating in our Oceanic Blog-A-Thon! ;o)

Unknown said...

They're awesome! I could have stayed for hours...