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Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.Both species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) and the southern elephant seal (M. leonina), were hunted to the brink of extinction for lamp oil by the end of the 19th century, but their numbers have since recovered.
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A southern elephant seal's eyes are large, round, and black. The width of the eyes, and a high concentration of low-light pigments, suggest sight plays an important role in the capture of prey. Like all seals, elephant seals have hind limbs whose ends form the tail and tail fin. Each of the "feet" can deploy five long, webbed fingers.
In a video she shared online, Kendra caught something peeping up at her from the other side of a stone wall. Sure enough, it was a huge Elephant Seal just chilling on the moss and keeping an eye ...
The elephant charged at them, destroying the tree they were hiding behind. “An elephant just passed right by us,” Nicole said. “[They] are, like, really close.”
In fact, mating leads to 1 in every 1,000 female elephant seals getting killed. [22] Other species in which the females (and/or their offspring) are injured or even killed include lions , rodents , farm cats , crabeater seals , sea lions , [ 1 ] bottle-nosed dolphins ( Tursiops truncatus ), [ 9 ] red-sided garter snakes ( Thamnophis sirtalis ...
Tourists in the truck ducked between seats as the incident occurred, and the safari guide can be heard screaming at the elephant and trying to back the truck away from him.
The northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) is one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the southern elephant seal). It is a member of the family Phocidae (true seals ). Elephant seals derive their name from their great size and from the male's large proboscis , which is used in making extraordinarily loud roaring noises ...