Elvis the Elephant Seal

Investigative guides which reveal amazing facts about members of the animal kingdom.

This episode features Elvis, a North American Elephant Seal who lives south of San Francisco. Elephant seals congregate onshore at rookeries, where they fight for dominance, mate, give birth and nurse their young during the winter breeding season. During this time they will go without food for three months. They'll play, sleep and shed their fur in the spring and summer moulting season.

Elvis's greatest enemy is one of the most feared predators on earth, the great white shark. For the moment, he is safe on the pupping beach. However, elephant seals feed in the water and one day soon Elvis will have to risk his life and venture into the Pacific Ocean, where the patrolling jaws will be waiting for him.