If working with marine mammals interests you, then click on the link below to read more about what life as a sealer on Marion Island entails. A couple of past sealers (Michael Voysey, Welly Qwabe, Liezl Pretorius and Sean Evans) share their stories...
Tip of the iceberg? No, the whisker…
Southern elephant seal whiskers reveal the secrets of their diets...
15 Oct 2017 – Southern Elephant Seal Birthday on Marion Island
Today, 15 October 2017, marks yet another birthday for the Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) on sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Every year on this day, the sealers (working for the Marion Island Marine Mammal Programme, otherwise known as the MIMMP) have one mission: to circumnavigate the entire island in one day to count every single elephant seal hauled out on every single beach!
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