Mermaid Minute #7: Elephant Seals (Watch Video)
In this weekly series on Scubaverse.com we are sharing Linden Wolbert’s video series ‘Mermaid Minute’.
The “Mermaid Minute” is an ocean educational web series for children. Each action-packed episode explores one subject, creature or habitat about our oceans for 60 seconds.
Professional Mermaid Linden Wolbert is a real mermaid whose passion is educating children about the wonders of our oceans, swimming safety and ocean conservation as well as exploration and inspiring our world’s youngest ocean ambassadors.
This is Episode #7 of the Mermaid Minute, the only ocean education web series hosted by a mermaid!
Found in the Pacific, Elephant Seals are smart and social MAMMALS just like us that love hanging out on the beach! They form colonies on land where they mate, fight for territory and bathe in the sun! Male elephant seals are called BULLS, and female elephant seals are called COWS. Males can weight over 5,000 pounds and make some really crazy noises to attract the females! On land, elephant seals get around by flopping on their bellies, yet they swim THOUSANDS of miles anywhere between Mexico to Alaska to find breeding grounds on the beaches.
Elephant seals were almost lost because humans nearly hunted them all to extinction in the 1800’s. Luckily they’ve made an amazing recovery and today there are over 150,000 of them! Anyone can go visit the elephant seals on the coasts of California, Oregon and beyond. And that’s an elephant seal in a MERMAID MINUTE! I’ll sea you next time, my little sea fans!
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