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Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga. ... The average depth of their dives is about 300 to 600 m ...
As for the duration, depth and sequence of dives, the southern elephant seal is the best performing seal. In many regards, they exceed even most cetaceans . These capabilities result from nonstandard physiological adaptations, common to marine mammals, but particularly developed in elephant seals.
A female northern elephant seal was documented in 2013 by a deep sea camera at a depth of 894 m (2,933 ft), where she consumed a Pacific hagfish, slurping it up from the ocean floor. The event was reported by a Ukrainian boy named Kirill Dudko, who further reported the find to scientists in Canada . [ 28 ]
Cal Poly team recovers elephant seal’s tag on Central Coast beach. The Cal Poly researchers then pulled together a team to retrieve the devices on Monarch’s head and back.
Male Southern elephant seal. Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) can dive as deep as 2000 m and stay underwater for as long as 120 min, which means that they are subjected to hydrostatic pressures of more than 200 atmospheres, but hydrostatic pressure is not a major problem, as at depths below about 100 m, depending on the species, the ...
There’s a reason the male elephant seals lounging on the sand look a bit ratty.
Piedreas Blancas is an important elephant seal rookery. Friends of the Elephant Seal is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about elephant seals and other marine life. California's marine protected areas encourage recreational and educational uses of the ocean. [ 7 ]
Tracking data showed Monarch traveled well beyond what anyone thought a pup could do during its first migration.