Elephant seal

During mating season, male seals usually have one thing on their mind. For about three months, the seals conserve all their energy to mate, or at least try to, with nearby females at the beach. But not all heroes wear capes, some of them weigh two tons made of blubber, and are willing to sacrifice precious energy to save a pup from drowning without even trying to get it on with its mother.The Animal Kingdom Imagines a World of Humans Turning Into AnimalsA group of wildlife biologists at the National Park Service observed…

A team of scientists recorded the brain activity of diving elephant seals in the wild and mapped out the eccentric treks the animals take when they sleep mid-dive.A Mononykus Hunts In ‘Prehistoric Planet’Exactly when and where elephant seals sleep in the open ocean has been a mystery; the animals will forage at sea for months at a time, so sleeping has to occur at some point. Researchers now think they have the answer, which they describe in a study published today in Science.Elephant seals generally dive tobetween 1,000…