Talk:Elephant seal

80 minutes is really the longest breath-holding of any mammal? I could swear sperm whales went for hours and hours... I guess not. ^_^'

I was wondering about the "longest time for mammal" line too. The Sperm Whale article says they can stay down for at least 2 hours.

Why does it say on the Walrus page that the Walrus is of Carnivora, and also recorded at 4000 lbs?

Why were they hunted?

Why were elephant seals hunted? for meat, for their skins? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.133.79.7 (talk • contribs) 16:08, 3 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Bucket

This is the famous "I has a bucket" seal CommunistHamster 23:08, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

80 minutes is the longest time for non-cetacean mammals. Dolphins and whales are cetaceans. 68.4.221.215 21:39, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mating video?

Do we really need a mating video? it just seems inappropriate

Animals mating "inappropriate"? You've got to be kidding, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.114.96.45 (talk) 23:47, 11 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About the top image

May I please share with you my opinion about the top image of the article. Is it a high quality image? Yes, it is. Does it add value to the article? It may by showing the seals colony. Should it be the top image? IMO, it should not be the top image and I'd like to explain why. The elephant seals got their name from the males trunks. The image in question shows only females (some parts of females, none is shown in whole). Females practically do not have any distinguish characteristics that differ them from other seals. That's why I believe that the top image should be changed in order to show a single male or a male and a female together.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you Mbz. Another criticism of the images on the whole page are that they are all of northern elephant seals: there should be at least one of a southern elephant seal. The French page uses a good (though maybe a little bit too dark) gaping shot of a bellowing male:

. The German page has a male and female (even more desirable!) but the quality is rather poor:

. But either is better than the one presently here. Best, Eliezg (talk) 22:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and I notice you have taken some images yourself. Perhaps you would like to suggest one of your own? Eliezg (talk) 22:21, 14 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for your support,Eliezg. I took many images of Southern elephant seals and Northern Elephant seals too. I uploaded some of them to Wikipedia and maybe I'll see what else I have to upload tomorow. I like the images you suggested. The image of the male may be better IMO because it is a better quality and higher resolution than the image of male and female.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:32, 15 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to add here, I was just up the San Simeon coast and I got a bunch of shots of some of the seals lounging around, so if you guys want them for the commons, let me know. I don't know if you need any more pictures, but some of the shots are pretty good I think, and I got some of the older males too, which you said you were looking for. Chewbacca1010 (talk) 01:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]