Revised 10/31/2002 NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL (Mirounga angustirostris):

• Main Authors: California Breeding Stock, Stock Definition, Geographic Range
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Minimum Population Estimate; Baja; Barlow; Gulf of Alaska; McCann; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.294.6933; http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/po2002sene-ca.pdf

Northern elephant seals breed and give birth in California (U.S.) and Baja California (Mexico), primarily on offshore islands (Stewart et al. 1994), from December to March (Stewart and Huber 1993). Males feed near the eastern Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska, and females feed further south...