Another animal one can easily find on the coasts of Antarctica is the elephant seal. With their round cute faces, attractive eyes and moustaches, they convert this hostile environment into a warm beauty. You can see them lying idly on the snow. Mostly the females and pups of elephant seals come out to land. It is also possible to see males of 4.5 m in length and 4 tons of weight.
Seals feed on fish, squid, and crustecea like krill.
A female elephant seal on land. During 1800's an exhaustive seal hunt began. In less than 50 years, British and American ships brought back more than 1.5 million sea lion skin. Of course elephant seals got their share too. Thousand tons of elephant seal oil was poured into the world's markets.