{"id":5051,"date":"2011-11-02T22:44:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T06:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2011-11-02T22:44:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T06:44:52","slug":"weaners-in-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/11\/02\/weaners-in-surf\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaners in Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5052\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/11\/dscn1837.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5052\" title=\"Elephant seals\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/11\/dscn1837.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Weaniers\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/11\/dscn1837.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/11\/dscn1837-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/11\/dscn1837-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/11\/dscn1837-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Michelle Marraffini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Michelle Marraffini<\/p>\n<p>During the Geological Oceanography field trip to Pt Reyes, students were lucky enough to see elephants seals playing in the calm surf. These seals are weaners meaning that they have weaned from their mothers and are ready to go out on their own in search of food.\u00a0 Point Reyes elephant seal population numbers 1,500 and 2,000\u00a0individuals since their return to this area\u00a0 in 1970&#8217;s.\u00a0 Elephant seals have a habitat range from Mexico to Alaska and Hawaii.\u00a0 They spend 80 percent of their life in the open sea in search of food and have bodies built for repeated diving.\u00a0 Elephant seals can dive to a depth of to 1000-2000 feet, remaining at depth for almost a half an hour, and repeat the dive with only 3-5minutes rest at the surface.\u00a0 Can you imagine diving for half an hour on one breath?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michelle Marraffini During the Geological Oceanography field trip to Pt Reyes, students were lucky enough to see elephants seals playing in the calm surf. These seals are weaners meaning that they have weaned from their mothers and are ready to go out on their own in search of food.\u00a0 Point Reyes elephant seal population [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}