There are eight species of southern fur seals, all smaller than their northern relative. They include the Guadalupe fur seal of Baja California, the brown fur seal of southern Africa and Australia ...

sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless, or true seals). Seals range in size from the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 45 kg (99 lb) Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern ...

Camps Bay beach has a rare guest – a female southern elephant seal who has hauled out onto the sand to moult. In this process ...

But... keep your distance: approaching too closely will stress the animal and could disrupt her moulting process.