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Elephant Seal Wrestling Video And you thought beach volleyball got competitive. That's nothing like when two male elephant seals compete for their own spot in the sand.Welcome to the National Geographic video player.Video Sections

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- Animal Mothers: Elephant Seal Birth - An elephant seal in the south Indian Ocean finds out that giving birth to a seal pup is no day at the beach.
- Animal Mothers: Walrus Cuddle - A walrus mother holds her baby like a human would! Separated from their herd, a walrus mother bonds with her newborn in the first few uncertain days of its life.
- Animal Winter Games: Race to the Ice - Emperor penguins try to make it past a lurking leopard seal on their way home to their chicks.
- Animal Winter Games: Tusk Wrestling - Heavyweight walruses fight to be the last tusker on the ice.
- Deep Sea Seal Diver - Monk seals aren't hermits, but they are endangered. Most remaining monk seals live in the waters of the Hawaiian islands.
- Dugongs - The slow and gentle dugong has developed an interesting strategy to avoid its nemesis, tiger sharks.
- Elephant Seal Wrestling - And you thought beach volleyball got competitive. That's nothing like when two male elephant seals compete for their own spot in the sand.
- Fish Thieves Take Rare Seals' Prey - November 19, 2007—As Hawaiian monk seals overturn rocks on the seafloor in their hunt for prey, fish follow the endangered mammals and steal their food, new research reveals.
- Fur Seals - Baby fur seals wait for the return of the mothers, who spend up to three weeks hunting out at sea.
- Harp Seal - The harp seal is found in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.
- Killer Whales Attack on Shore - Off the coast of Argentina, seasoned killer whales hunt sea lion pups.
- Killer Whales Hunt Sea Lion - One lone sea lion is no match for a pod of female killer whales.
- Leopard Seal - Using Crittercam® scientists try to learn about the leopard seal's hunting tactics.
- Manatee Detection - Scientists are at work on a new sensor that might help save manatee lives.
- Polar Bear Attacks Ring Seal - Sometimes coming up for air might not be such a good idea, especially if there's a hungry polar bear prowling about.
- Seagull Traumatizes Baby Sea Lion - Left on its own, a newly born sea lion is a target for a hungry seagull.
- Steller Sea Lions - Sea lion populations near Kodiak Island are plummeting. But are natural or man-made causes behind the decline?
- Walrus Mom and Baby - How's this for a birth announcement? Weight: 100 pounds (45.4 kilograms). And a face only a mother could love. On second thought, walrus pups are kind of cute in their own way.
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