Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) are named after the huge trunk-like nose on the males. 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). Elephant Seal pups are 40 kg at birth and are weaned in 24 days by which time they weigh 120 kg or more. These ‘weaners’ remain ashore until March-April, then go to sea without any instruction on how to survive or catch food. This Elephant Seal pup was suckling the rich milk from its mother on the edge of a meltwater stream at Gold Harbour on the subantarctic island of South Georgia, with King Penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) calling in the background. When it had finished feeding it rolled away, then patted its mother’s belly with its flipper.