The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s largest mainland-breeding colonies for the Northern Elephant Seal, and breeding ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

Elephants possess a suite of unique physiological traits and reproductive adaptations that are key to their survival and ecological success. Their complex endocrine systems govern behaviours such as ...

• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...