Elephant Seal Research Mission!

On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote teams up with Año Nuevo Reserve Director, Dr. Patrick Robinson, to assist with his Elephant Seal research for the Costa Lab at the University of California Santa Cruz. Coyote and Dr. Patrick’s main mission on this adventure will be to identify flipper tags and mark certain seals with a unique numbered stamp so they can be more easily identified for the lab’s research. Trust us when we say…this task requires a lot of stealth and even more patience. So what exactly is stamping a seal? Well you’re going to have to watch to find out! Get ready to join Coyote on his first Elephant Seal research mission!