Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pup, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} Newborn pup (less than 2 days) with umbilical cord attached, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} adult female, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} adult female running from breeding bull, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} young pup (less than 1 week) Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pup on edge of King Penguin colony {Aptenodytes patagonicus} Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pup beside mother, Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} large bull with King Penguins {Aptenodytes patagonicus} Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} Breeding group with King Penguins {Aptenodytes patagonicus} Salisbury Plain, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} breeding groups on shore with MV Ushuaia in background, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} two week pups playing, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} female and two week pup, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1 week pup suckling, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} Adult female scratching chin with hind flipper, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pups, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pup, Prion Island, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} large bull, Grytviken, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} large bull resting on tussock grass, Grytviken, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 wek pup walking on its flippers along the shore, Grytviken, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 wek pup on shore, Grytviken, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pups playing, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pups playing, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pup suckling, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pups playing in water, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pup, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} 1-2 week pups, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} bull and females with 1-3 week pups, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic fur seal {Arctocephalus gazella} bull with King Penguins {Aptenodytes patagonicus} Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia

Suzi Eszterhas / Antarctic fur seal {Arctocephalus gazella} bull with King Penguins {Aptenodytes patagonicus} Saint Andrews Bay, South Georgia

Nick Garbutt / Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) at colony on beach. Cape Fria, Skeleton Coast Park, Namibia. July 2008.

Nick Garbutt / Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) chasing / predating Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) off Seal Island in False Bay, Cape, South Africa.

Nick Garbutt / Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) chasing / predating Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) off Seal Island in False Bay, Cape, South Africa.

Nick Garbutt / Colony of Cape Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) on Seal Island in False Bay, Cape, South Africa.

Nick Garbutt / Waves crashing on rocks and Cape Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) in the surf off Seal Island in False Bay, Cape, South Africa.

Edwin Giesbers / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} on rocks, Antarctica

Edwin Giesbers / Antarctic Fur Seal {Arctocephalus gazella} males fighting, Antarctica

Edwin Giesbers / Antarctic Fur Seal (Arctocephalus gazella) bull with ragged fur bellowing, Antarctica

Jouan & Rius / African / Cape Fur Seal (Aractocephalus pusillus) sitting on a rock, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / African / Cape Fur Seal (Aractocephalus pusillus) portrait, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / Female African / Cape Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) with baby, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / African / Cape Fur Seal (Aractocephalus pusillus), female suckling baby, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / Cape / African Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) on rock, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / African / Cape Fur Seal (Aractocephalus pusillus), female with baby suckling, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Jouan & Rius / African / Cape Fur Seal (Aractocephalus pusillus) walking across beach on flippers, Cape Cross Seal Reserve, Namibia

Pete Oxford / Galapagos fur seal {Arctocephalus galapagoensis} bull resting on rocks, yawning, Santiago Island, Galapagos

Rick Tomlinson / Young fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) at King Edward Point, South Georgia, February 2007

Rick Tomlinson / A young fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is warned by an adult king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus), King Edward Point, South Georgia, February 2007

Rick Tomlinson / Fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in the grass tussock and a group of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on the shoreline, with SY "Adele" anchored in the distance. Prion Island, South Georgia, Februa...

Rick Tomlinson / An adult fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) in the grass tussock and a group of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) on the shoreline, with SY "Adele" anchored in the distance. Prion Island, South Georgia...

Michael Pitts / Antarctic fur seal {Arctocephalus gazella} South Georgia

Sue Flood / Aerial view of Cape / South African fur seal colony (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) on the Skeleton Coast, Namibia

Juergen Freund / New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) swimming amongst kelp. Albany, Western Australia

Juergen Freund / New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) swimming upside-down amongst kelp. Albany, Western Australia

Juergen Freund / New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) swimming amongst kelp. Albany, Western Australia

Juergen Freund / Diver swimming with New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) amongst kelp, Albany, Western Australia

Carol Walker / Subantarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus tropicalis) next to an old whaler's propellers. South Georgia Island, Sub Antarctica.

Carol Walker / Subantarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus tropicalis) and Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) at an old whaling station. South Georgia Islands, Sub Antarctica.

Pete Oxford / Galapagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) Santiago Is, Galapagos

Pete Oxford / Galapagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) Santiago Is, Galapagos

Chris Gomersall / Breeding colony of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) and king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus). Salisbury Plain, South Georgia, Antarctica. January 2007

Chris Gomersall / Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) aggressive female with mouth open. Fortuna Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Chris Gomersall / Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) breeding colony. Jason Harbour, South Georgia, Antarctica. January 2007

Chris Gomersall / Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) breeding colony. Jason Harbour, South Georgia, Antarctica. January 2007

Chris Gomersall / King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) by old whaling station. Stromness, South Georgia, Antarctica. January 2007

Chris Gomersall / Breeding colony of Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) Prion Islet, Bay of Isles, South Georgia, Antarctica. January 2007

Chris Gomersall / Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella). Stromness Bay, South Georgia, Antarctica.

Pete Oxford / Galapagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) sleeping, Santiago / James Island, Galapagos

Pete Oxford / Galapagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) Santiago / James Island, Galapagos

David Kjaer / Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) close up of front flipper and claws of male, Donna Knook, Lincolnshire, UK

Dave Watts / Australian fur seal {Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus} portrait, South Australia

Barry Bland / New Zealand fur seal {Arctophalus foresteri} Dunedin, New Zealand.

Barry Bland / New Zealand fur seal {Arctophalus foresteri} Dunedin, New Zealand.

Barry Bland / New Zealand fur seal {Arctophalus foresteri} Dunedin, New Zealand.

Barry Bland / New Zealand fur seal {Arctophalus foresteri} sunbathing with paw in air, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Barry Bland / Group of Australian fur seals {Arctocephalus pusillus doriferous} resting on rocks, Montague Island, Namoora, New South Wales, Australia.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Cape fur seals in surf (Arctocephalus pusillus) Dyer Island, South Africa

Ben Osborne / Camerman Paul Atkins filming fur seals from scafolding gantry. Bird Island, Antarctica, 1993, for BBC series Life in the Freezer

Ben Osborne / Cameraman Mike Richards filming Southern fur seals at breeding colony for BBC series Life in the Freezer, South Georgia 1992

Ben Osborne / Cameraman Doug Allan films fur seals from the sea for BBC series Life in the Freezer, Bird Island. South Georgia, 1993

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) portrait of young bull in summer, St Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska

Gerry Ellis / Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus) portrait on beach northeastern Pacific Coast, North America, vulnerable

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) cow and pup on beach, Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Galapagos Fur Seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) cow and pup on beach, Cape Douglas, Fernandina Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

TJ Rich / Leopard seal (Hydruga leptonyx) close up of fur and flippers, Antarctica

Andrew Parkinson / South african fur seal pup {Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus} waiting for mother, Skeleton coast, Namibia.

Pete Oxford / Cape fur seal colony {Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus} Cape Frio, Namibia, Southern Africa.

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Two Afro-Australian fur seals {Actocephalus pusillus} on rocks, Dyer Island, South Africa.

Christoph Becker / Afro-australian fur seal {Arctocephalus pusillus} relaxing on rocks, Namibia.

Brent Hedges / Afro-australian fur seal {Arctocephalus pusillus} underwater exhaling airbubbles out of nose, South Australia.

Sue Flood / Photographer Sue Flood taking pictures of young Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) in Antarctic peninsula on location for BBC Planet Earth, January 2005.

HUGH WARWICK / Cape / South African fur seal {Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus} Cape Cross, Namibia

Peter Scoones / Antarctic fur seal {Arctocephalus gazella} Male showing unusual colouration, South Georgia

Peter Bassett / Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) surround British Antarctic Survey Base on Bird Island, South Georgia, Falklands

Doug Perrine / South african fur seals {Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus} preying on bait ball of Sardines {Sardinops sagax} South Africa

Doug Allan / Antarctic fur seal {Arctocephalus gazella} Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Island, Antarctica

Niall Benvie / Face portrait of Grey seal pup {Halichoerus grypus} Lincolnshire, UK