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
• 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
• 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 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
• Some of the elephant seals returned without tags, while others never returned at all.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• Her kids spotted elephant seals basking at Año Nuevo State Park.
  — Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• For now, biologists must content themselves with the short snippets of film shot by the northern elephant seal.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 June 2022
• In the early 1800s, Russian fur traders harvested blubber from elephant seals and pelts from sea lions.
  — Laura Newberry, latimes.com, 7 July 2019
• On their initial 80-day foraging trip, the elephant seals surveyed only got an average of one hour of sleep per day.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• The virus has proven potent enough to jump from birds to mammals, striking elephant seals and other marine mammals that congregate on shore.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024