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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.
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.
Piedreas Blancas is an important elephant seal rookery. Friends of the Elephant Seal is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about elephant seals and other marine life. California's marine protected areas encourage recreational and educational uses of the ocean. [ 7 ]
Cal Poly researchers tag 10 seal pups to examine migration habits. Elephant seals are migratory, with the adults swimming north along the coastline as far as Alaska and out into the northern ...
The situation is even more dire in South America, where more than 20,000 sea lions have died in Chile and Peru and thousands of elephant seals have died in Argentina.
There’s a reason the male elephant seals lounging on the sand look a bit ratty.
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 ...
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 ...