DELIVERED SAFELY to the San Diego Zoological Gardens sea 

 elephants from Guadalupe Island are introduced to their new 

 home and keepers. In the photograph below, a taxidermist 

 and helpers carefully create a plaster cast of a sea elephant on 

 the beach at Guadalupe. From the cast the animal was recre- 

 ated in a natural habitat group which has won acclaim in the 

 Field Museum of Natural History at Chicago. Northern sea ele- 

 phants were nearly extinct until a few years ago when a rigid 

 protectorate was set up by the Republic of Mexico. In the past, 

 sealers had slaughtered thousands for their blubber. 



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