Floatflyer
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Saw this on the Seattle news and since I have never seen one on any beach. let alone in Mulege, thought it was pretty cool!
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/07/massive-elephant-seal-start...
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basautter
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Awesome, thanks for sharing!
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HeyMulegeScott
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The poor guy looks a little hot. People should definitely keep their distance.
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Two places I've seen them, Ano Nuevo State Park, and San Miguel Island.
Thought to be extinct until breeding population found on Guadalupe Island.
Anyone seen the old time post card with a woman shooting one from about 10 feet away titled " The Last Elephant Seal"?
I bought a silver wetsuit so I wouldn't look like a sea lion, only to realize that now I look like a elephant seal which Whitey actually prefers over
sea lions.
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KaceyJ
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Looks like Bahia Conception
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shari
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here in Bahia Asuncion, once in awhile big old elephant seals haul out on the little beach beside my kitchen. They always look dead...until they move
and I see they are just super relaxed. The last one I saw was getting rolled in the surf like dead sealions do...I was absolutely sure he was
dead...until he sort of woke up and swam away...so weird.
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AKgringo
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About those bloated beasts on the beach...
Not all of them need help....I am so tired of people trying to keep me wet, or roll me back into the water! 
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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In the 19th century man hunted the northern elephant seal almost to extinction. Some think there were only 50 left in 1890s.
Thanks to Mexico and USA protecting them (thank god for greenies and good government) they have recovered to be quite numerous.
Woke!
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David K
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Ya, but do they taste good???
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To Orca's sure thing DK. Maybe some great whites too.
I have an issue with species such as us eating other mammals, but that is just me. I like fish. I like shell fish. Occasionally, as the sampler that
I am, I will try certain food sources I would never otherwise choose.
Mammals are not on that list.
If I lived the the arctic, I would feel differently toward consuming seals and some whales. I respect the native populations that knew better than to
take more than what was needed to survive.
The ultimate preservationists are our native populations and they deserve our ever lasting respect. We owe them far more than we can ever repay for
the example they have set.
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