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Southern elephant seals are the largest of the pinnipeds, with adult males reaching 5 meters in length and 3 tons in weight (females and young males are considerably smaller). Although they spend much of the year at sea, they come ashore to breed and later to shed their fur and outer skin layers. At this time elephant seals are highly social and like to lie in tightly-packed groups, as these were doing near Palmer Station, Antarctica.
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