Get yourself a study species as faithful as elephant seals 🦭. These are the tracks from the same individual last year (green) and her track so far this year (blue) #AnilloSEALS #Strategy #Fidelity

And the seals are on the move! Our elephant seals tagged as part of our project #AnilloSEALS are starting their 8-months post-moult foraging trip. Any guesses on where they’ll go? 🦭🦑🧪🌍

And they are on the go! Our tagged elephant seals are foraging in the fjords, sending us lots of data on their behaviour and oceanography 🦭 #AnilloSEALS @exetermarine.bsky.social

Elephant seals 🦭 have a lot of blood with a lot of red blood cells (RBC)🩸 with lots of haemoglobin to store lots of oxygen. That way they can dive for 20 min (max > 2 hr!). That whitish layer between plasma and RBC are white blood cells and platelets #AnilloSEALS #PinnipedFacts 🧪#MarMam

We are tagging southern elephant 🦭 with CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) and CTDF (Fluorometer) tags to better understand the poorly-known oceanography of the fjords in this remote area of the planet #AnilloSEALS 🌎🦑🧪

Group of moulting male elephant seals in Tierra del Fuego

Female elephant seal outfitted with a SMRU satellite tag

Surreal experience tagging a seal in Tierra del Fuego while being watched by guanacos and condors flying over… #AnilloSEALS #SealsRule @lecmmar @CentrosAnid @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦭🦑🧪🌎