SF News Decapitated Baby Seals on NorCal Beaches Confound Biologists, But Now They Know the Culprits Baby seals have been turning up with their heads ripped off on beaches from Santa Cruz to Mendocino County. Now researchers know who’s behind this curious phenomenon, and it’s predators with a newfound taste for seafood.
SF news Day Around the Bay: Lil’ Harbor Seal Pup Rescued From Trash Entanglement at Fort Mason Friday will be 2023's second Spare the Air Day; a harbor seal pup needed rescue from a fishing line entanglement at Fort Mason’s Gashouse Cove Marina; a new documentary posits that there was no Zodiac Killer.
Arts & Entertainment The Marine Mammal Center Needs Your Help For Pupping Season Do you love baby animals and have a flexible schedule on Fridays? Then the Marine Mammal Center is looking for you, as it's seal pupping season and they need some help with the
SF News It's Mating Season For Harbor Seals, But Drones Could Be Killing The Mood From February through June, hundreds of harbor seals sleep, mate, sleep, give birth, and then sleep some more on beaches like one at the center of the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary, Hopkins
SF News Malnourished Baby Seal Found Stranded In Hayward The Hayward Police Department received an odd early morning call yesterday from a concerned citizen reporting that he or she had come across a baby seal flopping around the bushes of an office
SF News Tolay The Traffic-Snarling Elephant Seal Gives Birth (Not On The Highway) Tolay, the elephant seal relocated from Highway 37, gave birth to a pup yesterday! The bir https://t.co/U7W5kVKtnv pic.twitter.com/mdfTGP5Ily— Point Reyes NPS (@PointReyesNPS) January 4, 2016 The obstinate
SF News Tolay The Pregnant Elephant Seal Escapes Drop-Off Point, Heads To New Hangout As you likely recall, a "very determined" pregnant elephant seal spent the last few days attempting to cross Highway 37 near Sears Point in Sonoma County — much to the chagrin of the California
SF News [Update] 'Very Determined' Elephant Seal Still Trying To Cross North Bay Highway Why did the elephant seal cross the road? (Or the highway, in this case...) https://t.co/YDLxq417dd pic.twitter.com/M6W3KNvMds— Marine Mammal Center (@TMMC) December 29, 2015 As the sun rose
SF News Elephant Seal Blocks North Bay Highway, Gets Feisty With Passing Cars Things are getting a little wild on a North Bay highway today, as an elephant seal has been off and on blocking traffic all afternoon, and has allegedly attacked at least one car
SF News Seal Escapes To Hawaii, Gets FedExed Back to Oakland A story of a daring Pacific Ocean journey comes to us by way of the pinniped beat today: A northern fur seal somehow ended up on a beach on Oahu this past Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Humphry Slocombe's Brilliant, Harrowing Response To Foie Gras Activists Oh, this is rich. Ever since foie gras was banned (or "banned") in the state of California on July 1, a smattering of animal rights activists, it seems, have since harassed Mission District
misc Adorable Animal Safety Announcement: Please Don't Touch the Seal Pups It's harbor seal birthing season, which means local shores will be infested with adorable, plush-toy-like newborn pups. As much as you'd like to take them home and keep them in your bathtub forever
SF News Counter-Terrorist Sea Lion Nabs Fake Terrorist You can't make this shit up, folks! Two specially trained sea lions and a dolphin succeeded in "identifying" a suspicious device attached to a concrete pier piling as part of a counter-terrorism exercise
SF News Seal Pupping Season Closes Part of Point Reyes Starting today, a portion of Point Reyes will close "while thousands of resting and pupping harbor seals come onshore in various parts of the park." Drakes Estero will shutdown for the pups until
