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Elephant Seal bulls can weigh up to 6,000 pounds. While these two young bulls aren't there yet, there size is still formidible. This battle is about taking the beach and the females it holds. Neither of these two bulls are old and large enough to hold a harem but they are still driven to try. After all to the victor lies the spoils. Aging males basically centers around the size of their nose or proboscis and the amount of scarring on their neck and proboscis. The seal on the left is older and has the larger proboscis. Both are beginning to get the scarring around their necks. A truly old male's proboscis is much larger and is pink with scarr tissue. Ofcourse these guys are snug in the sand with the females defending their harems. The beachmasters can't be everywhere, so now and again a young bull will make it up into the cows, to possibly have his way.........