Ella is weaned

Diana Kramer, director of The Marine Mammal Center San Luis Obispo facility, which is actually in Morro Bay, Was out at Piedras Blancas and posted this report:

Today we found Ella who weaned this weekend! We were pretty confident it was her (or him) because she was right by post nine as usual and the only big fat weaned pup! 

She looks great, nice and robust and was enjoying resting on the beach. You can really see her size in the pic with the smaller pup in the background!  

Some elephant seal drama in her corner, though, with one big male lumbering through chased by another male. The losing male woke her up from her nap with a big bop to the head as he scooted through, but she made it through ok! 

It looks like Ella is aiming to be a super weaner, because we caught her (or him) checking out some other females to see is if she could get away with stealing some milk!