Sea Elephant
a large seal, called also bottle-nosed seal and seal elephant.
It is the largest of the seal family, being larger than an elephant. The average length of the male is 12 to 14 feet, but some of 20 and 25 feet are mentioned.
SEA ELEPHANT The female is generally about 10 feet long. It gets its name from its size and from its proboscis, which stretches out a foot or more, somewhat like the trunk of an elephant. The males are slaty-blue or brown, the female olive-brown above and yellowish below. Their hair is coarse and useless, but their thick skin makes good harness leather. The blubber yields a fine clear oil as good as sperm oil, without bad smell or taste. In England it is used for softening wool and in making cloth. The sea elephant was once found in abundance at Heard's Island in the southern Indian ocean, and at the Falk- SEAL land and South Shetland Islands and other islands in the south Atlantic, and the coast of California. It is now rare.