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Elephant seals can be very aggressive. The male elephant seal fights over the female seal because it wants to mate.  In the breeding season, the males defend their territories.  In a year, the seals will migrate about 11,000 to 13,000 miles, making two round trips between the offshore feeding areas. In May and April they go back to their southern rookeries to haul out and molt. They go back to their foraging areas in late June and May to spend the next six to eight months feeding. They return to their pups and breeding in January.

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The elephant seal males can mate at age nine, and females can at age four.  The elephant seal, like all other mammals, feed milk to their young from mammary glands.  A strong diaphragm separates the heart and lungs from the abdominal cavity.  All mammals were born alive. All the young are carried in the mother’s womb. The male’s nose helps attract females and helps the males keep in more moisture when they are not in the water.

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The elephant seals like to eat sharks and squid. The elephant seal is a carnivorous animal, which means they only eat meat. The elephant seal can go an extended period of time not eating. One animal that preys on an elephant seal is the killer whale, better know as the orca.

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Some things that have changed in general with almost all animals is a symmetrical body, a complete digestive system, a brain and sensory organs, tissues, organs, and organ systems, a body divided into segments, and a fluid-filled body cavity.

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The elephant seal has eukaryotic cells. They and other mammals, has red blood cells. Red blood cells are in blood and help carry oxygen to organs and other places in the body using a protein called haemoglobin.

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Elephant seals live from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California on the coast where it is sandy and muddy. They like the sand because it acts like a sunscreen. They are excellent divers. This helps in foraging for food and avoiding their biggest predator, larger sharks.

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It is a humongous brown, marine mammal. The northern elephant seal is quite a bit smaller than its southern relative.  The seals are slaughtered because of their blubber. They have oil-enriched blubber. There were about 100 elephant seals left, and the only remaining colony was located in the Guadalupe Islands off the coast of Baja California.