Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Elephant seals fighting.jpg

 
Original - Male Northern Elephant Seals fight fiercely each year. Unsuccessful males will not mate at all, while successful males have harems of 30 to 100 females.
Reason
The elephant seal reproduction system is quite fascinating, and this is a great action shot highlighting the battles between males for who gets to reproduce. This was cropped from a larger photo, so if anyone wants to make an edit, you should check out the original on flickr.
Articles this image appears in
Northern Elephant Seal, Sexual selection
Creator
Mike Baird
Question - Why isn't there a 'wow' in two elephant seals trying to rip each other's heads off??? Booksworm Sprechen-sie Koala? 20:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Elephant seals fighting.jpg MER-C 05:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]