Giant of the Sea

A male southern elephant seal from the Peninsula Valdez in the heart of Patagonia in southern Argentina. 

Elephant seals are the world's largest members of the seal family, with adult males reaching 18 feet and weighing nearly three tons.  The Wildlife Conservation Society is working to safeguard populations of these ocean-going giants through a program called Sea and Sky.

This unique initiative aims to protect not only the spectacular breeding grounds for elephant seals (along with sea lions, penguins and other ocean wanderers) but their distant feeding grounds as well.

• Warm Water Kills Seals
• The World's Biggest Beasts