Story:Elephant seal

Elephant seals are large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga.

Butterfly austral - Serge Ouachée

The northern elephant seal, somewhat smaller than its southern relative, ranges over the Pacific coast of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA

Elephant seals have a very large volume of blood, allowing them to hold a large amount of oxygen for use when diving.

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The southern elephant seal is found in the Southern Hemisphere on islands such as South Georgia and Macquarie Island, and on the coasts of New Zealand, South Africa, and Argentina in the Peninsula Valdés. In southern Chile, there is a small colony of 120 animals at Jackson Bay, Admiralty Sound (Seno Almirantazgo), Tierra del Fuego.

SarahStierch

Elephant seals are marine mammals classified under the order Pinnipedia, which, in Latin, means feather- or fin-footed.