Elephant seals

Colleen Cline

1. Elephant Seals
By: Colleen Cline
Ms. Reed
May 26, 2010
http://www.ctap4.org/video/images/MaleElephantSeal3.jpg

2. Types of SealsTypes of Seals
•Leopard Seal
•Harp Seal
•Harbor Seal
•Gray Seal
•Weddell Seal
•Hawaiian Monk Seal
•Northern Fur Seals
http://media.photobucket.com/image/seals/burr_keeton/Animals/sealion_lev11.jpg?o=12
http://www.fisherycrisis.com/seals/grey_seals_newborn2.jpg

3. Physical AppearancePhysical Appearance
•Large
•Long snout
•Whiskers
•Gray
•Two fins
•Can weigh up to
over a thousand
pounds
http://www.aad.gov.au/asset/amazingpics/bull_elephant.jpg

4. 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.
http://dchoc.org/images/2-23-05-elephant-seals/elephant-seals-2-23-05.jpg
http://www.aad.gov.au/asset/images/352_ul-Elephant_seal_pup.jpg
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1115

5. 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.'
http://neatorama.cachefly.net/images/2008-10/bull-elephant-seal-penguin.jpg

6. 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/

7. BibliographyBibliography
•http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=how+much+does+seals+weigh&fulltext=Search&ns0=1
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_seal#Lifespan
•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_seal