He's Huge! A Vagrant Southern Elephant Seal on Western Cape, South Africa beach. #wildlife
Popped down to Onrus Beach again this morning to check up on Buffel (Buffalo in English) the southern elephant seal. He gets his name from the place he was first seen in South Africa - Buffelsbaai near Cape Point. He is now just about in full moult with only some skin and fur left on his rear flipper. He’ll be off back to sea just as soon as he grows his fur back - some say towards the end of next week. We’ll see…
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the northern elephant seal) and they are about 40% larger than their northern cousins. They are the largest extant marine mammals excluding the cetaceans and they get their name from their massive size, and the large proboscis on adult males that is used to produce very loud roars, especially during the breeding season.
Southern elephant seals normally occur around the sub-Antarctic islands that are some 2 000 kilometres to the south of South Africa so what is this one doing here? Well, it seems that they do this from time to time and being philopatric, he’s likely to keep popping up on the Cape beaches for his annual moult.
And, it looks as though all this moulting is tiring work…
Filmed on the Sony A1 and 200 - 600mm lens.
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