– An unusual traffic hazard along Highway 37 in Sonoma County on Monday had officers from the California Highway Patrol and researchers from the Marine Mammal Center playing a game of chicken with a 500 pound wayward elephant seal. Callers first reported that the 225 kg mammal was trying to climb the divider wall near Sears Point in Sonoma.
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“The ultimate goal would be to get her transported away from the area and released back somewhere safe”, Barclay said.
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The team is planning to lure the animal back onto land and across the thoroughfare it repeatedly tried to traverse once high tide comes again, but getting it done will require Tolay’s help. The mammal center said on Facebook that a search of the other side of the highway showed nothing that could be of interest to an elephant seal, including a possible pup.
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On Tuesday morning, the Marine Mammal center used a kayak and bullhorns to try and scare the seal back into the ocean.
Wildlife experts say the seal could be pregnant and is trying to find a place to give birth, but there is no way to confirm that without an ultrasound.
There are many, legitimate questions that can be asked about why the seal wanted to cross the road.
A veterinarian using a pole-mounted tranquilizer sedated the 900-pound elephant seal Tuesday, and at least 12 people loaded the unconscious animal onto a tarp and then brought it to a waiting truck.
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“He’s back in the water now, ” Barclay said. “She’s very adamant she’s going to cross this stretch of roadway”, Barclay said. “So she was moving us pretty easily, a lot of force”. Volunteers said they usually deal with stranded sea lions in this area but typically don’t see elephant seals, which are commonly found up north in Point Reyes or down in the Peninsula at Ano Nuevo State Park.
