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The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of two species of elephant seals. It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora, as well as the largest extant marine mammal that is not a cetacean.
Learn about the two species of elephant seals, the northern and southern, and their distinctive features, behavior, and habitat. Find out how they breed, feed, migrate, and face threats from hunting and climate change.
Learn about the southern elephant seal, a large predator with a trunk-like nose that lives in the subpolar and polar waters of the southern hemisphere. Find out how it mates, feeds, and faces threats from hunting and climate change.
Learn about the southern elephant seal, a large ocean-going mammal with a distinctive proboscis and a circumpolar distribution. Find out how they adapt to diving, breeding, feeding and conservation in the Southern Ocean.
Learn about elephant seals, the two largest pinnipeds, and their distribution, behavior, and conservation. Find out the difference between northern and southern elephant seals, and watch videos of their breeding and hunting.
The southern elephant seal is found in the Southern Hemisphere on islands such as South Georgia and Macquarie Island, and on the coasts of New Zealand, Tasmania, South Africa, and Argentina in the Peninsula Valdés.
Southern elephant seals are the largest seals on the planet, and the largest mammals on Earth apart from whales. They have a thick layer of blubber, which is covered in a yellowish or silvery-gray-brown coat.
