The California Highway Patrol said the 500-pound elephant seal tried to cross Highway 37 in Sonoma County several times Monday, once making it as far as the median.
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CHP, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Marine Mammal Center staff were able to herd the seal off the road but she made repeated attempts to return and efforts to steer her to a different waterway were unsuccessful.
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Earlier, CHP Officer Andrew Barclay says he got a face-full of hot breath and saliva while trying corral this extremely irritated mammal.
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Barbie Halaska, a research assistant at the mammal center, said the wandering seal appeared healthy and fit, and experts think she might be pregnant.
Now, they are hoping to get the stubborn seal out of the water, sedate her on land and relocate her somewhere safe, according to center spokesman Giancarlo Rulli. “So we’re really afraid that when it gets darker later on she might become a big speedbump”.
As the sun rose on this handsome day and Bay Area commuters began getting back to work, so too did everyone’s favorite “very determined” elephant seal. The elephant seal hopped out of San Pablo Bay, around 1 p.m., scooted its way in front of eastbound Highway 37 traffic and tried to crawl over the median.
It followed a day-long stand-off in which wildlife experts used horns and paddles to try to encourage the animal back into the water.
Barclay said officers checked on the animal throughout the night, making sure she hadn’t gotten into the roadway.
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The first time the mammal was spotted she was trying to climb the divider wall in the median, but authorities walked behind her, guiding her to the safety of the San Fransisco Bay. “The only thing that is causing traffic right now is just people trying to slow down and take pictures of an elephant seal”.
