PHOTO OF THE DAY January 24, 2006  

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Where South Georgia Island
When 1998
Photographer Maria Stenzel

Using a piece of vegetation as a makeshift pillow, a pair of elephant seals cuddle on the beach.

Elephant seals cannot move easily on land, because of their girth. The animals spend 90 percent of their time underwater.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Epic of Survival: Shackleton," November 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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