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<span style="color:#FF0000">'''Sand Flat, Southeast Farallon'''</span> is home to the largest colony of Northern Elephant Seals on the Farallones. The lack of sand on the flats causes the pinnipeds to thermoregulate by flipping occasional puddled rainwater onto themselves. | <span style="color:#FF0000">'''Sand Flat, Southeast Farallon'''</span> is home to the largest colony of Northern Elephant Seals on the Farallones. The lack of sand on the flats causes the pinnipeds to thermoregulate by flipping occasional puddled rainwater onto themselves. | ||
A viewing blind has been built to shield biologists studying the mammals from view. | |||
Latest revision as of 16:36, 17 September 2017
Sand Flat, Southeast Farallon is home to the largest colony of Northern Elephant Seals on the Farallones. The lack of sand on the flats causes the pinnipeds to thermoregulate by flipping occasional puddled rainwater onto themselves.
A viewing blind has been built to shield biologists studying the mammals from view.
