Christine Heinrichs
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A second pup has already joined Gingerbread, the first pup of the season, at the Piedras Blancas rookery.
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First elephant seal pup of the season born in SLO County. Meet Gingerbread
Docents report mother and pup are both resting well at the San Simeon viewpoint.
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December 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
A second pup has already joined Gingerbread, the first pup of the season, at the Piedras Blancas rookery.
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First elephant seal pup of the 2025-2026 breeding season born last night. Named Gingerbread. Settled next to mother. Sex undetermined.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
First elephant seal pup of the 2025-2026 breeding season born last night. Named Gingerbread. Settled next to mother. Sex undetermined.
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First elephant seal pup of the season born last night. More than 5,000 will join him or her during the breeding season. The pup hadn’t nursed yet when these pictures were taken, but was flipping sand.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
First elephant seal pup of the season born last night. More than 5,000 will join him or her during the breeding season. The pup hadn’t nursed yet when these pictures were taken, but was flipping sand.
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This morning's King Tide reached 7.4 feet at the Port San Luis tide gauge, a few inches higher than predicted, and flooded the Pasadena parking lot in Baywood Park.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This morning's King Tide reached 7.4 feet at the Port San Luis tide gauge, a few inches higher than predicted, and flooded the Pasadena parking lot in Baywood Park.
Reposted by Christine Heinrichs
Bald eagles in a flooded marsh during #KingTides. Morro Bay State Park, December 4, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Bald eagles in a flooded marsh during #KingTides. Morro Bay State Park, December 4, 2025
A senior bull announces his arrival — and a younger, smaller bull reacts. Bulls have unique signature calls, and can recognize each other.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A senior bull announces his arrival — and a younger, smaller bull reacts. Bulls have unique signature calls, and can recognize each other.
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The vaccine against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza tested in elephant seal last summer worked. Now the vaccine is being given to the endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals.
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Now, l;et's find a way to immunize elephant seals. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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Now, l;et's find a way to immunize elephant seals. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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Inside the Bird-Flu Vaccine Trial for Monk Seals
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December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The vaccine against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza tested in elephant seal last summer worked. Now the vaccine is being given to the endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/s...
Now, l;et's find a way to immunize elephant seals. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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Now, l;et's find a way to immunize elephant seals. www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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I can’t be with the seals on this Thanksgiving, but will post photos of the first bulls on the beach next week. In the meantime, here’s an article about how magic seal milk is.
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Seal Milk Is the Cream of the Molecular Crop
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November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I can’t be with the seals on this Thanksgiving, but will post photos of the first bulls on the beach next week. In the meantime, here’s an article about how magic seal milk is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/s...
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More on the elephant seal bulls, on their way to Piedras Blancas from their foraging grounds along the continental shelf for the winter breeding season. A big bull arrived today, he may be the first!
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Elephant seal bulls could arrive on SLO County shores any day now. What to know
Friends of the Elephant Seal is even holding a contest to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
More on the elephant seal bulls, on their way to Piedras Blancas from their foraging grounds along the continental shelf for the winter breeding season. A big bull arrived today, he may be the first!
www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/e...
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Enter the First Bull contest! Friends of the Elephant Seal holds a contest every year, to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season. mailchi.mp/elephantseal.org/firstbull2025. The winner gets an FES baseball cap, and praise from FES members and elephant seal admirers.
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Enter the First Bull contest! Friends of the Elephant Seal holds a contest every year, to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season. mailchi.mp/elephantseal.org/firstbull2025. The winner gets an FES baseball cap, and praise from FES members and elephant seal admirers.
Female elephant seals on the beach now are not pregnant. They are skipping this season, for reasons not well understood. Maybe lost last year’s pregnancy. How will they get pregnant this year? I don’t see any mating going on. Alpha bulls have not yet arrived. Elephant Seal mysteries!
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Female elephant seals on the beach now are not pregnant. They are skipping this season, for reasons not well understood. Maybe lost last year’s pregnancy. How will they get pregnant this year? I don’t see any mating going on. Alpha bulls have not yet arrived. Elephant Seal mysteries!
A happy reunion for this otter mother and pup. I could watch this video all day.
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Marine Mammal Center Baby Otter and Mom.mp4
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November 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
A happy reunion for this otter mother and pup. I could watch this video all day.
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Here’s this morning’s King Tide at Piedras Blancas. Sunny. The juvenile seals are okay with being tossed around in the surf. They have migrated at least once and are comfortable under water. Seal pups who will be born in December and January can’t swim, and may drown.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here’s this morning’s King Tide at Piedras Blancas. Sunny. The juvenile seals are okay with being tossed around in the surf. They have migrated at least once and are comfortable under water. Seal pups who will be born in December and January can’t swim, and may drown.
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Beach panorama of extreme low tide at the Piedras Blancas elephant seal viewpoint, north beach.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Beach panorama of extreme low tide at the Piedras Blancas elephant seal viewpoint, north beach.
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King Tide Thursday and Friday mornings, the highest tides of the year, full moon tonight. The afternoon brings the lowest tides. The north beach at the Piedras Blancas elephant seal viewpoint expands to its widest. The seals are clumped together after the morning’s high water mark.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
King Tide Thursday and Friday mornings, the highest tides of the year, full moon tonight. The afternoon brings the lowest tides. The north beach at the Piedras Blancas elephant seal viewpoint expands to its widest. The seals are clumped together after the morning’s high water mark.
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This sweet young elephant seal, possibly a female, makes her way through the much larger males around her. Notice the cookie cutter shark wound on her side, and the scars on the larger males around she moves over. Cookie cutter sharks leave that distinctive circular wound.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This sweet young elephant seal, possibly a female, makes her way through the much larger males around her. Notice the cookie cutter shark wound on her side, and the scars on the larger males around she moves over. Cookie cutter sharks leave that distinctive circular wound.
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Happy Halloween!
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Trick-or-treating looks (and smells) a little different for sea lions👻Happy Halloween from all of us, footed, flippered and frightened here at the Center!🎃🦭#marinerescue #sealion #oceanlife #halloween...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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These young bulls decide on a three-way fight. Whiling away the afternoon at the beach.
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October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
These young bulls decide on a three-way fight. Whiling away the afternoon at the beach.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Thousands of pelicans and gulls joined the seals on the beach.
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September 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Thousands of pelicans and gulls joined the seals on the beach.
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Here’s what’s going on at Piedras Blancas elephant seal viewpoint: www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/e...
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Young elephant seals practice fighting at SLO County beach. See their tussling
The immature juveniles are practicing for the big show when more adult elephant seals arrive on the beaches for breeding season.
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September 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here’s what’s going on at Piedras Blancas elephant seal viewpoint: www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/e...
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Northern Elephant Seals could be vulnerable to HPAI, as Southern Elephant Seals are. Scientists are testing a vaccine at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
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Scientists Begin Testing Bird Flu Vaccine in Seals
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September 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Northern Elephant Seals could be vulnerable to HPAI, as Southern Elephant Seals are. Scientists are testing a vaccine at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
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Scientists Begin Testing Bird Flu Vaccine in Elephant Seals
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Scientists Begin Testing Bird Flu Vaccine in Seals
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September 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Scientists Begin Testing Bird Flu Vaccine in Elephant Seals
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