Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>Racing to Save <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>’s <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ElephantSeals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElephantSeals</span></a> From <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BirdFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BirdFlu</span></a><br>In 2023, bird <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/flu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flu</span></a> arrived on the rocky shores of the Valdés Peninsula in Argentina, ripping through the local colony of southern elephant seals. More than 17,000 seal pups died. It could take decades for the population to recover.<br>Now, a team of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ecologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecologists</span></a>, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/epidemiologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>epidemiologists</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/veterinarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veterinarians</span></a> is scrambling to keep the same thing from happening to northern elephant seals. <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/card/2025/06/03/science/bird-flu-mammals-elephant-seals-california" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/card/2025/06/03/sc</span><span class="invisible">ience/bird-flu-mammals-elephant-seals-california</span></a><br><a href="https://archive.ph/Xe8d6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/Xe8d6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/H5N1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>H5N1</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/influenza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influenza</span></a></p>