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
  • Stop to see the elephant seals in San Simeon.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • Young northern elephant seals can be seen in and around the Bay Area.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • One pregnant elephant seal slid away to be on her own, possibly to give birth.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • 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 elephant seal also has much more red blood cells than these other animals.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Tule elk wander Point Reyes and elephant seals laze on its beaches.
    — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Once swallowing well, the elephant seal patients are ready to start feeding in the pool.
    — Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Trevor McIntyre faces off against a male southern elephant seal.
    — Nala Rogers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Spotting rare and beautiful birds is thrilling, much like seeing elephant seals or whales.
    — Nicholas Cannariato, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Back on the island, the massive male elephant seal hasn’t finished his annual molt yet.
    — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
  • Some of the elephant seals returned without tags, while others never returned at all.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The southern end of Drakes Beach, below the elephant seal overlook, is closed year-round.
    — Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • As their name suggests, northern elephant seals have large noses that resemble, well, an elephant’s trunk.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 25 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Excursions include kayaking with elephant seals and hiking white sand dunes.
    — Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In any number of species—elephant seals, red deer, rattlesnakes—the privilege of mating is settled by a fight.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The elephant seal inched toward the water and soon slipped into the Pacific.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2022
  • Over 17,000 elephant seals migrate here every year.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • An elephant seal’s life is a constant cycle of hunting, breeding and traveling.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The sandy beaches of the islands are also the territory of fur seals, elephant seals, and dolphins.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 19 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Researchers emphasize that the full scope of the outbreak among elephant seals may be far greater than current numbers suggest.
    — Brian Hackney, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • This week, about 300 elephant seals are on the mainland peninsula just offshore at a small island.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Three out of the four big groups of Southern elephant seals have been hit by avian influenza, Kovacs noted.
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026

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