Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

 Is this an injury or molt?

Evidently injury cause I think this is the one that died.

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

 Is this an injury or molt?

On the upper left, is this an albino or just a reflection from the sun?

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

            Do they choose which harem to belong to?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

8.  What happens to those females that can’t bear pups? Are they still taken into a harem?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

 

Please read through the list of questions here and try not to duplicate the ones we already have. Thank you.

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

 Is this an injury or molt?

On the upper left, is this an albino or just a reflection from the sun?

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

            Do they choose which harem to belong to?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

8.  What happens to those females that can’t bear pups? Are they still taken into a harem?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

 

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

 Is this an injury or molt?

On the upper left, is this an albino or just a reflection from the sun?

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

            Do they choose which harem to belong to?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

8.  What happens to those females that can’t bear pups? Are they still taken into a harem?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

 Is this an injury or molt?

On the upper left, is this an albino or just a reflection from the sun?

Is this injury or molt?

In the upper left, is this an albino or just reflection of the sun?

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

            Do they choose which harem to belong to?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

8.  What happens to those females that can’t bear pups? Are they still taken into a harem?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

Females:

1) Do the females choose which harem to belong to?

2) Do they revisit the same harem each year?

3) What happens to those females that can't bear pups? Are they still taken into a harem?

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

What is this bright red/orange color on the seal?

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

sorry, I'm having a hard time typing, I guess.....

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

Shat is this bright red/orange color on the seal?

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

Anonymous:

Name: LAP
E-mail: Not specified

Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

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molting or injury?

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Some day I hope to learn all the different ways to post these pictures without goofing 1/2 the time....

Let's try this.....

Is this molting or injury? 

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Molting:

1.  Molting is done in summer, right?

2.  How long does molting take?
3.  Can they get in the water during molting?
4.  Does the salt water help them heal?
5.  If a seal is molting, can it still defend itself from a predator?
6.  At what age do seals start to molt?
7.  Do seabirds eat any of the molt?
8.  Is there any particular order to the molt, ie: tail to head, or is it random?

Female Seals:

1.  Do females always stay with the same male? Are they monogamous to one male?

2.  Do females ever leave a group, or do the males police their females?

3.  Do the females always join the same “harem” each season?

4.  Will they nurse pups that are not theirs?

5.  Do females birth only one pup at a time?

6.  Can the mothers always find their pups? How?

7.  How can a female give birth when they're packed in so close together?

Pups:

1.  Are the babies born at night or in the daylight?

2.  How long can pups survive if separated from the mother?
3.  How soon do pups start to swim in the water?

4. Have there ever been albino pups born?

5. Do the males injure the pups when they crawl over them?

In General:

1.  What is the reason for flicking sand? 

2.  Do the seals ever get humanized...used to being around humans?
3.  Do the seals ever migrate with the whales?

4.  What is the bright red/orange color we see on a couple of the large seals?

5.  What about the red on the males throats?

6.  With so many cruise ships dumping waste into the ocean, not to mention other dumping of junk in to the ocean, how is this affecting the seal habitat?

7.  Do the Sanctuary beaches ever have to be sanitized, like a few of the condemned beaches in California (Southern)?

8.  What can we do to help the elephant seals survive?

9.  Which of their “senses” is the most important?

10. When an injured/recovered elephant seal is put back in the ocean, how well do they assimilate themselves into new territory with a new bunch of seals? Is a strange seal easily accepted?

11.  If a seal is injured do the other seals help it or ignore it?

12.  Do the seals stay on land during the night, like they do during daylight hours?

13. How far out to sea will elephant seals travel?

14. How long can they stay away from shore?

15. What is the average lifespan of an elephant seal? How does it vary between males and females?

16. How sensitive are the seal whiskers?

Seals and Seabirds:

1.  Do the seabirds irritate the seals, or do they provide a function?

2.  What is the relationship of seabirds and seals?

Global Warming:
1:  How is Global Warming affecting the elephant seal?
2:  Does GW affect the food they survive on?
3:  What about the El Nino, La Nina effect?

Anonymous:

Name: Karen/California
E-mail: Not specified

 ...you take such good care of us!

 ...you take such good care of us!