The harmless sea elephants are currently restoring the population that has been shaken during the active hunt for these animals. Fortunately, they have not been exterminated for a long time, so they freely exist in the wild. True, it is not so easy to see them with your own eyes, since they live mainly away from people.
Diving under water in search of food, they can hold their breath for up to 80-90 minutes. The world population of elephant seals in our time is estimated at about 800 thousand individuals. Newborn cubs of these animals can have a body length of more than a meter, and weigh more than 50 kilograms. About 1/5 of the elephant’s body weight is in the blood. There is a lot of blood in his body, since it is in it that oxygen is stored for long diving. On average, elephants spend about three hundred days a year in water.
Sea elephants are one of the largest mammal predators on earth. But they feed on fish, and people are usually not attacked. On the surface of the water, the heart of elephant elephants beats about 10 times slower than under water. This helps them save oxygen when diving. Sea elephants are found in all hemispheres of the Earth. Despite their terrifying size, elephant seals often fall prey to killer whales and sharks. In addition to fish, sea elephants willingly eat a variety of mollusks. Male elephant seals live on average 25% less than females, for a very prosaic reason – they often fight among themselves for a female, inflicting severe injuries on each other. Zoologists attribute elephant seals to seals.
These animals prefer to live alone. In large groups, elephant seals are collected only during the breeding season. During the mating elephant seals, a fair amount of their cubs die when crushed in a fight between furious males, not noticing anything around. An adult elephant seal can weigh more than four tons and have a body length of more than six meters. The huge nose of these animals resembles an elephant trunk, so they got their name. But only males have such hypertrophy. Male elephant seals are usually one and a half to two times larger than females.
