The Friends of the Elephant Seal Docents/Guides frequently welcome visitors from all over the world to Piedras Blancas. In a muilti-year project, Brandt Kehoe collected a fantastic collection of native language speakers presenting seasonal facts about northern...
April – May Adult females that left the rookery after weaning their pups, as well as juveniles that were out at sea all winter, begin arriving late in March. This is the start of the molting season. Growing new skin at sea would cause a tremendous heat loss....
Molting Beginning in late March and extending into September, each of the seals, with the exception of the weaned pups of that year, will return to the rookery for a month to grow new skin and hair. Because the seals do not circulate blood next to their skin while in...
