Blubber Lovers Narrated by David Attenborough.
Why is balding biologist
Bumey J. le Boeuf crawling around California with a bottle of ladies hair colouring? Why is he dragging a glass-fibre model seal through the dunes? It's to study the sex life of the elephant seal. A bull seal can weigh seven times more than a cow, in human terms that's the equivalent of a woman being leapt on by three Sumo wrestlers at once.
These superlative seals feed at record breaking depths, which keeps them out of the jaws of the great white shark ... sometimes!
Photography RICHARD GANNICLIFFT FUm editor ANDREW NAYLOR Written and produced by MOIRA MANN
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
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