x     In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both females and males, and allegedly they belong to “deep South species”, according to local environmental and animal protection organizations such as “FaunaMarinaSOS”. One of them was a pregnant elephant seal which had a pup in the Piriapolis resort beach. Named Francisco, Francis, probably recalling the only Latin American pope, mother and pup have been cordoned off in a