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Male Elephant Seal lying on the beach - detail of head and huge nostril

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Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) are named after the huge trunk-like nose on the males and make sounds that sound like a gurgling drain. They are the largest non-whale predators – males weigh up to three tonnes and adult females between 300-900 kg. Elephant Seals spend most of their lives at sea and are prodigious divers, reaching depths of 2 kilometres and staying down for two hours. They come to land to breed (October-November) and to moult (January to April). This large battle-scarred male was dozing on the beach at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia and was breathing through one huge nostril – what a sight!

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