by Carolyn Kraft

After being wiped out by DDT, bald eagles reintroduced to the Channel Islands have started to bree

by Carolyn Kraft

If you have been feeling down or have lost touch with the fun side of life, then it’s time to purchase a ticket to see the famous motivational speakers, I mean the famous motivational leapers – the humpback whales. They are the ocean’s merriment masters, thrill seekers and acrobatic all-stars.

Winning isn’t everything. And in the case of the fin whale that’s the truth. As the second largest animal in the world, the fin whale must forever live in the shadow of the blue whale’s greater size and girth. Hence the reason the fin whale isn’t very well known. Yet Fin whales i average 75 feet in length and weigh 40 to 80 tons. Pretty impressive second place numbers.

by Carolyn Kraft
Picture an elephant crossed with a seal and add in a little “District 9” alien. The result: the male northern elephant seal or Mirounga angustirostris

California brown pelicans seem to have gone mad, begging for food, tailing boats, landing in people’s backyards, hanging out on school rooftops in the Valley and washing up dead along the shore.