Southern elephant seals at a wallow. Elephant seals gather in these wallows, ormuddy pits, during their molting season, and use the mud and friction to helpshed dead skin. Wallows have a very strong odor made up of seal musk andfeces, and are compris
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Photographer: Ray Buchheit
Date: 1994
Credit: NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program
Location: Antarctica, Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island