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Saia Nahir Bartes, PhD Student and Research Teaching Fellow, Deakin University

Neil the Seal can teach us plenty about seal behaviour. A marine biologist explains

Neil the Seal became a social media sensation almost overnight.

Neil is a five-year-old male southern elephant seal who weighs roughly one tonne. He was born on the Tasman Peninsula in October 2020, and has made an annual trip to Tasmania each year since. This is because many seal species regularly return to the place they were born, as well as the sites where they breed and rest.

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