The Return Of The Elephant Seal

Year Published: 1982

Creator: Perspective Films/Esquire/Simon & Schuster

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Discusses elephant seals who were near extinction, but have made a miraculous recovery, doubling their population every ten years and reclaiming most of their original territory on California coastal islands. Traces the nineteenth-century seal hunts through archival footage, records the immense animals' breeding behavior, and traces their annual migration patterns. Ponders and depicts the problems of expanding animal populations.

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