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Title: The Elephant Seal:


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The Elephant Seal
An Amazing Seal With a Trunk
By Paige Ramsland
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Introduction
  • Elephant Seals are miraculous under water
    creatures.
  • They have a gigantic trunk just like an Elephant.
  • That is where they get their unique name from.
  • They are amazingly large creatures of the sea.

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Description
  • Elephant Seals are mammals.
  • Elephant Seals have a grayish-brown color to
    their skin.
  • They weigh approximately 8,800 lb.
  • They live to be about 14 years old.
  • Elephant Seals are warm blooded.
  • Elephant Seals are also a vertebrate.

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Food Sources
  • Elephant Seals get their food by diving down deep
    in the ocean.
  • They eat rays, squid, fish, octopus, hagfish, and
    ratfish.
  • Elephant Seals eats meat which makes them a
    carnivore.

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Habitat
  • The Elephant Seal lives in the sunlight zone.
  • The sunlight zone is 200 meters deep.
  • It lives partly on land and partly in the water.

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Predators
  • Some of the Elephant Seals predators are the
    Great White Shark, the Killer Whale, and when
    Elephant Seals die bigger seals eat them.
  • Elephant Seals can go on land so sometimes that
    is how the can defend themselves.

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Environmental Impact
  • Men hunt Elephant Seals for their blubber,
    bones, fur, and oil.
  • Human are using them for research because of
    their lifestyle
  • They can suffocate because of litter in the
    ocean.

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Conclusion
  • I hope you have learned a lot about this
    miraculous under water creature and will be able
    to help save this creatures habitat. I had a lot
    of fun learning about this creature and its life
    and I hope you have too.

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