Elephant seals at Piedras Blancas rookery (California) - Male and females
Common Name
Northern Elephant Seal
Scientific Name
Mirounga angustirostris
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Carnivora
Family
Phocidae
Genus
Mirounga
Subject
Mammals; Places; Nature sounds; Ambient sounds
Spatial Coverage
San Simeon (Calif.); San Luis Obispo County (Calif.); California
Creator
Rice, Jeff
Media Rights Management
Audio file copyright 2009, the Western Soundscape Archive at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library, http://westernsoundscape.org. Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
Publisher
Western Soundscape Archive; University of Utah
Date
2009-02-26
Type
Sound
Format
video/mp4
Digitization Specifications
Compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format
Contributing Institution
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 6.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer
Temperature: 60 degrees Fahrenheit; Wind: moderate; Skies partly cloudy; GPS N 35 degrees 39.765' W 121 degrees 15.413'; photo shows the recording location; Local Time: Recorded between approximately 10:40 AM and 11:30 AM
