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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. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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.
Tracking data showed Monarch traveled well beyond what anyone thought a pup could do during its first migration.
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.
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Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.Both species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), were hunted to the brink of extinction for lamp oil by the end of the 19th century, but their numbers have since recovered.