How to Use elephant seal in a Sentence

elephant seal

noun
  • Here's a look at what the elephant seals and their pups are up to.
    Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 22 Jan. 2018
  • The bull elephant seal charged into the ocean after the pup and pushed it to shore with its head, the study said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The first time a northern elephant seal was known to be born here was only about 50 years ago.
    Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The southern end of Drakes Beach, below the elephant seal overlook, is closed year-round.
    Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Once swallowing well, the elephant seal patients are ready to start feeding in the pool.
    Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Usually, the salty breeze brought with it the sounds of baby elephant seals calling to their moms in high pitched yells.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Tule elk wander Point Reyes and elephant seals laze on its beaches.
    Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Also on the boat was a now-hefty northern elephant seal found off the coast of La Jolla roughly two months ago.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
  • One pregnant elephant seal slid away to be on her own, possibly to give birth.
    Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The elephant seal inched toward the water and soon slipped into the Pacific.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
  • This abundance of food draws in sea lions, harbor seals and, more rarely, elephant seals, which breed at Año Nuevo to the south.
    Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Something else must have influenced the loss of this gene in the cats, brown hyena and northern elephant seal, but not in their kin.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2011
  • Trevor McIntyre faces off against a male southern elephant seal.
    Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2019
  • In total, Fedak and the crew tagged seven elephant seals found on dry beaches near Pine Island.
    Kasha Patel, Smithsonian, 13 July 2018
  • The video shows an elephant seal that was temporarily stranded in Chile in 2020.
    Ana Faguy, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Guided walks to see the elephant seals will begin Dec. 15 and continue through March 31.
    Patrick May, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The canyon, carved out by its namesake creek, sweeps down in a green swath from the coastal mountains on the border of Santa Cruz to the beach, where colonies of giant elephant seals bask.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Bald eagles and elephant seals were succumbing to bird flu.
    Emily Elconin, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The sandy beaches of the islands are also the territory of fur seals, elephant seals, and dolphins.
    Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Back on the island, the massive male elephant seal hasn’t finished his annual molt yet.
    Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • The leopard seal, sometimes referred to as a sea leopard, is the second-largest species of seal in the Antarctic, behind the southern elephant seal.
    Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
  • The elephant seal also has much more red blood cells than these other animals.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
  • At up to 8,800 pounds, southern elephant seals weigh more than giraffes, hippos, and even rhinoceroses.
    National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • When worn by an elephant seal, the device can monitor cyclic patterns in speed and count each surge forward as one stroke of the flippers.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2014
  • In the world of elephant seal mating, the alpha decides who gets access to the females, and who gets to be alpha is decided by a bloody fight.
    Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • This week, about 300 elephant seals are on the mainland peninsula just offshore at a small island.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • For humans, that means it’s prime time to see the northern elephant seal, which calls shores along the Central Coast, Peninsula and Marin home during the winter.
    Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Some orcas eat fish and echolocate to find their targets, while others glide silently through the water to sneak up on elephant seal pups.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Farther offshore, a lone elephant seal fished for its lunch, and, in a rocky inlet, an otter bobbed along on its back, a crab clutched between its front paws.
    Sara B. Franklin, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024
  • Spotting rare and beautiful birds is thrilling, much like seeing elephant seals or whales.
    Nicholas Cannariato, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020

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