Elephant Seals

By: Colleen ClineMs. Reed

May 26, 2010

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Types of SealsTypes of Seals

• Leopard Seal• Harp Seal• Harbor Seal• Gray Seal• Weddell Seal• Hawaiian Monk Seal• Northern Fur Seals

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Physical AppearancePhysical Appearance • Large• Long snout• Whiskers• Gray• Two fins• Can weigh up to

over a thousand pounds

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HistoryHistory• Hundreds of thousands of

northern elephant seals once inhabited the Pacific Ocean. They were slaughtered wholesale in the 1800s for the oil that could be rendered from their blubber.

• In 1922, the Mexican government gave protected status to elephant seals, and the U. S. government followed suit a few years later when the seals began to appear in Southern California waters.

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CharacteristicsCharacteristics • Inhabitants of Antarctic

and sub-Antarctic islands, Southern Elephant seals, are named for their massive size and for the trunk-like noses of the males.

• The biggest of the Antarctic seals, these impressive mammals were heavily exploited for their oil during the 19th and early 20th centuries by sealers, who called the animals 'sea elephants.'

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FactsFacts• There are two species

of elephant seals, the northern and southern. Northern elephant seals can be found in California and Baja California, though they prefer to frequent offshore islands rather than the North American mainland.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/elephant-seal/

BibliographyBibliography• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_seal#Lifespan

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_seal