The tracked seals, the study found, started off their time negatively buoyant — their time on land had consumed fat stores. Over the next weeks, though, the mammals gained fat and became more ...

Fat elephant seals prioritize hiding themselves from predators during their vast, months-long foraging expeditions in the open ocean, while skinny seals need to take more risks until they're nice ...

May 13 – For elephant seals – one of the most distinctive of the 33 species that comprise the world’s seal family – it is hard work to stay fat. Scientists have conducted the most ...

Benefits of being fat (but not too fat) for deep-diving elephant seals Date: November 5, 2014 Source: University of California - Santa Cruz Summary: Researchers using a new type of tracking device ...

PORT ELIZABETH — Fat and healthy. That’s how lost elephant seal Selso, who washed up in KwaZulu-Natal last June, arrived at his true home of ... PORT ELIZABETH — Fat and healthy. That’s ...

WASHINGTON - Fat elephant seals prioritize hiding themselves from predators during their vast, months-long foraging expeditions in the open ocean, while skinny seals need to take more risks until ...

May 13 (Reuters) - For elephant seals - one of the most distinctive of the 33 species that comprise the world's seal family - it is hard work to stay fat. Scientists have conducted the most ...