| NOUN | a southern elephant seal | southern elephant seals | |
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- "Mirounga leonina", the southern elephant seal, is one of the most dimorphic mammals.
- With a long coastline, Mozambique boasts numerous marine vertebrates, including about twenty species of whale and ten of dolphin, the dugong, the brown fur seal and the southern elephant seal.
- These include the southern elephant seal and macaroni, gentoo, king and eastern rockhopper penguins, considered to be wetland species under the Ramsar Convention.
- The seals of the Antarctic Ocean include leopard seal "(Hydrurga leptonyx)", Weddell seal "(Leptonychotes weddellii)", the huge southern elephant seal "(Mirounga leonina)", crabeater seal "(Lobodon carcinophagus)" and Ross seal ("Ommatophoca rossii").
- The southern elephant seal virus appears to be related to the Sinbis clade.
- A 2014 study found that southern elephant seal ("Mirounga leonina") females had a lower fitness due to behavioral changes attributed to climate change.
- The bay is home to temporary colonies of King Penguins and a variety of other birds, such as petrels or albatrosses, which nest in the cliffs of the bay, as well as colonies of South American sea lions and Southern elephant seal.
- in body length, rivaling the extant southern elephant seal as the largest pinniped and member of the order Carnivora of all time.
- "Jeotgalicoccus pinnipedialis" is a gram-positive bacterium. It belongs to the Staphylococcaceae. The cells are coccoid. It was found in the swab of the mouth of a Southern elephant seal.
- angustirostris") and the southern elephant seal ("M.
- Since 1989, A bull southern elephant seal, named "Humphrey" returns annually .
- The southern elephant seal was one of the many species originally described by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae", where it was given the binomial name of "Phoca leonina".
- For example, the sperm whale and the southern elephant seal occasionally hunt in the aphotic zone despite the water pressure squashing their bodies; however, not fatally.
- Marine mammals include five breeding species of seal; the southern elephant seal, Australasian fur seal, subantarctic fur seal, Antarctic fur seal and the rare New Zealand sea lion, 95% of the world's population of which breed on the Auckland Islands.
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