No, this depends on their personal food and beach preferences and their energy needs. Only seals that are well rested during their on-land time can avoid sharks and other dangers when they return to the sea. On Kauai, they are known to eat lizard fish, hawkfish, and moray eels. In other areas, they eat conger eel, fish, squid, octopus, and lobster. However, a few pups have been born on Kauai, Molokai, Maui, and Oahu.
Moms pick quiet beaches that seem safe for the vulnerable pups.
These beaches are usually easily accessible to the pups, inaccessible to sharks, and infrequently visited by humans. A pup weighs about 30 pounds when born and has a shiny black pelt. The pups nurse milk from their mothers for about 6 weeks. During this time, the pup gains 150 lbs. No, the mother weans the pup by venturing back into the ocean to replenish all the weight she lost nursing her pup.