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Posted: 23 Aug 2019

Taken: 29 May 2019

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CA-1 Piedras Blancas Elephant Seals molting + danger (#1263)

CA-1 Piedras Blancas Elephant Seals molting + danger (#1263)
Molting on one of the elephant seals. Per the website below, they typically molt in May and most would have molted by the time that I was visiting on May 29th.

More of a concern, and I didn’t notice it until processing the photos much later, is that one of the seals has a tight rope around its neck – the seal to the right and just above the molting seal. The rope is probably from an anchor or fishing – I didn’t find anything indicating that there were any groups monitoring the seals and taking care of situations like that.

Source: sites.google.com/site/elephantsealnotes/events-on-land/molting

Diane Putnam, neira-Dan, Aschi "Freestone" have particularly liked this photo

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 neira-Dan
neira-Dan club
superbe !!
4 years ago.
 Diane Putnam
Diane Putnam club
Beautiful shot - but that rope makes me shudder. Here is an organization concerning elephant seals in San Simeon. Maybe they can have a few people on the lookout for that poor fellow. www.elephantseal.org
4 years ago.

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