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The Original…. before HBO….
It’s breeding season for the elephant seals at Año Nuevo, and they get extraordinarily loud when they go at it with 5000 lbs of polygamous love.
Here you see a couple of females exchanging words.
The current census at this breeding ground (one of seven that they return to):
326 males, 1710 females, 1137 pups.
When they depart, the males hug the coast, swimming as far North as Alaska to cool off, and the females go to Hawaii. =)
Here’s a short video pan of the breeding grounds.
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