Elephant+Seals+-+Jordyn+and+Georgia

Northern Elephant Seals Southern Elephant Seals
 * ELEPHANT SEALS **

Facts

Elephant seals are named for their large snout like nose. Males battle each other for mating dominance. Some encounters end with roaring and aggressive posturing, but many others turn into violent and bloody battles. The population of the elephant seals are decreasing everyday because people are hunting them down there are as few as 680,000 elephant seals left in the world. Elephant seals are both predator and prey.

Northern and Southern elephant seals are carnivores.

Elephant seals are the largest of them all.

__**Glossary **__

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