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Northern elephant seal rookery on Ano Nuevo Point in February 2019. Two male northern elephant seals confront one another at the park.. Northern elephant seals, California sea lions, sea otters, and other marine mammals come ashore to rest, mate, and give birth in the sand dunes or on the beaches and offshore islands.
Elephant seals at Año Nuevo during the mating season in early February. Año Nuevo State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is one of two adjoining marine protected areas off the coast of San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties, on California’s central coast. The area is approximately 55 miles (89 km) south of San Francisco.
Large colonies of elephant seals are also typically found at Piedras Blancas near San Simeon, at Año Nuevo State Reserve and at the Channel Islands off Southern California. Tired seal pup tangled ...
“No one has ever heard of this before.”
Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per satellite tag, losses are just too high to risk the expensive technology. ... and one from Año Nuevo ...
Año Nuevo State Park: State park San Mateo: 4,209 1,703 1985 Encompasses Año Nuevo Island and Año Nuevo Point, which boasts the world's largest mainland rookery of northern elephant seals. [7] Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve: State natural reserve Los Angeles: 1,781 721 1976
As recently as the 18th century, what is today Año Nuevo Island was a peninsula.It became separated from the mainland by a channel that continues to widen. The island is mainly made up of Miocene shale and deposits from ancient dunes, along with a broad intertidal shelf and low, rocky islets, all of which are frequently altered by the erosive pounding of waves, particularly during winter storms.
Penelope Seal is an elephant seal and one of the many marine animals tagged as a part of the TOPP program. Penelope was born as a "little" 90 lb (41 kg) pup in early January 1998 at the Año Nuevo State Reserve on the California coast. [ 44 ]