Elephant Seal
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| Class | Mammalia |
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| Order | Carnivora |
| Family | Phocidae |
| Phylum | Chordata |
| Kingdom | Animalia |
| Mass | Southern elephant seal |
| Northern elephant seal | |
| Did you know | Elephant seals dive to 1,550 m beneath the ocean's surface (the deepest recorded dive of an elephant seal is 2,388 m (7,835 ft) by a southern elephant seal). |
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| ID | 1161740 |
About Elephant Seal
Elephant seals are large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga. The two species, the northern elephant seal and the southern elephant seal, were both hunted to the brink of extinction by the end of the 19th century, but their numbers have since recovered.
Elephant seal Photos
