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Description
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 comprised of thick, peaty mud.
Credit
NOAA NMFS SWFSC Antarctic Marine Living Resources (AMLR) Program
Photographer
Ray Buchheit
Display Date
1994
Location
Antarctica, Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island
Collection
Fisheries