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Elephant Seal Pups Learn To Adapt To Life At Sea

Seal pup season is coming to a close in California. When adult elephant seals leave the beach, pups are on their own as they prepare to live out at sea for months at a time. This means pups must learn to sleep underwater. Jessie Kendall-Barr and other researchers at the Dan Costa lab at UC Santa Cruz are studying how.

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