0 a type of large seal (= a mammal that eats fish and lives partly in the sea) found in North America and Antarctica. The males are very large and have a long snout (= nose):
As many as 25,000 California sea lions and 15,000 elephant seals arrive here during the winter to mate.
These are the huge guys (up to 5,000 pounds) with the long proboscis that gives elephant seals their name.
We started analyzing the elephant seal population.
