Authorities Investigating After Suspects Seen Throwing Rocks at Protected Elephant Seal in California

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the National Park Service tip line at 888-653-0009

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  • Authorities in California are searching for two people who were seen throwing rocks at an elephant seal on a National Park Service property
  • Point Reyes National Seashore, located north of San Francisco, shared that video from the beach’s livestream captured two people on Dec. 6 throwing rocks
  • Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NPS tip line at 888-653-0009

Authorities in California are searching for two people who were seen throwing rocks at a protected species of seal on a National Park Service (NPS) property in Dec. 2025.

In a Facebook post on Dec. 19, Point Reyes National Seashore, located north of San Francisco, shared a video from the park’s Chimney Rock beach livestream that captured two people around on Dec. 6 at around 3:40 p.m., throwing rocks at an elephant seal.

The park said that one of the suspects was a woman with black hair, wearing a white baseball cap, a red-and-dark-colored jacket with blue-and-gold accents, and jeans. The other person captured on camera throwing rocks at an elephant seal was a man wearing a dark coat with neon yellow accents, including a neon yellow-lined hood, and who seemed to be carrying a large black DSLR-style camera…

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