Coyotes developing a taste for fish and elephant seals!

UCSC researchers are studying the diet of the coyote population
at Año Nuevo using stable isotope analysis.  They discovered that
coyotes are relying much more on marine resources, including
elephant seal carcasses, than they had in the past.

Click here for the San Jose Mercury News article.

New paper: elephant seal pup mortality

Life his hard, especially for elephant seal pups at Año Nuevo.
Not all of the pups born here survive beyond the breeding season
and researchers are starting to investigate why.  There is no single
culprit:  it is a mix of blunt trauma, starvation, bite wound, drowning,
and still-births..

Click here to read the full scientific paper.

(elephant seal mother and pup, moments after birth)