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Elephant seal bull

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This bull is about seven years old. He is vocalizing.
They make a deep snorting sound that sounds something
like snoring. You can hear them from more than a mile
away. They reach full maturity in about eight years.
As it is he weighs over two tons. The largest males
may weigh over 2.5 tons. He had been in a serious
fight the day before. You can see the fresh wounds on
his neck. He seems to have found an isolated section
of the beach to recover.
Shot at Ano Nuevo on Ano Nuevo 2009.


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Leslie Cohelan13-Jan-2010 02:05
How fortunate to get so close to capture this image...great diagonanl comp