Crowned Elephant Seal
by Etienne Pauthenet, Meteorology Department (MISU) Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
This female elephant seal is wearing a device recording unique oceanographic data in the remote Southern Ocean (temperature, salinity, fluorimetry and depth combined with a geolocalisation Argos system). The tag was attached before her post-breeding trip at sea, 4 months previously. It was 7 in the morning when I took this shot, she was just back on land and we were preparing our material to retrieve the tag. A Great Albatross is flying in the background.
Shot with a Canon 7D mark II ,24-105mm Canon lens, 105mm focal length, f/4, 1/640s, and ISO 100.
Taken on 4
January
2017
Submitted on Jan. 15, 2018
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- Oceans & Seas (131)
- Atlantic Ocean (102)
- Others (50)
- Southern Ocean (7)
- Exact location (70.4015 E, -49.4238 S)
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southern ocean, oceanography, bio-logging, elephant seal
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