- The great white pelican catches about 1.2 kg of fish a day in its large throat pouch.
- The brown pelican dives from a height of 15 m above the water to catch fish below below the surface.
- There are seven species of pelican. Most live and feed around fresh water, but the brown pelican is a seabird.
- A great white pelican comes in to land on the water.
- One of the largest pelicans is the Australian pelican, which is up to 180 cm long and weighs about 15 kg.
- The white pelican lays 1-2 eggs in a nest mound on the ground. Both parents help to incubate the eggs and care for the young.
- Pelican chicks are able to stand at 3 weeks old and can fly at 7-10 weeks old.
- White pelicans work as a group to herd fish into a shoal by swimming around them in a horseshoe formation.
- In flight, a pelican flaps its wings 1.3 times a second. This is one of the slowest wingbeat speeds, when actively flying, of any bird.
At the Carpinteria Seal Sanctuary you can find a community of harbor seals; playing in the water and sunbathing along the shoreline. You can view these creatures from several different look out points along the rocky cliff. This protected habitat is a place where the seals give birth to their cubs.
This is an Asian elephant that's at the Santa Barbara Zoo, smaller than their African cousins, they are highly endangered. Elephants are the worlds largest land animal. Asian elephants can be identified by their smaller, rounded ears. These elephants have a fingerlike feature on the end of their trunk that they can use to grab small items. The trunk of an elephant is used for smelling, breathing, drinking and also garbing a potential meal. Elephants can consume about 300 pounds of food a day; they eat roots, grasses, fruit, and bark, and they eat a lot of these things.
