This big guy is the first adult bull to return to Piedras Blancas from the post-breeding migration. Hundreds of young seals and adult females are still on the beach, completing their molt.
He's restored some of his hefty blubber, after the rigorous breeding season fast. He may have gone 100 days without food during the breeding season.
Males feed along the coast of Alaska. They swim north from Piedras Blancas,
covering 60 to 75 miles a day, after the winter breeding season is over. They
mostly forage for prey on the bottom.
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