There is no mistake in it. She is ready to mate. Finally, the lovers unite，out be it briefly. After two months, the breeding season is over. It is time for the long trip back to their southern feeding grounds, but the females carrying the next generation of nomads, and fighters.

For the young, on this bleak southern shores, it is the season of abandonment. With barely a backward's glance, the starving elephant seal females desert their giant three-week-go babies on the shore.

The males, utterly stand, have nothing to do with their young.

With this spread to winning, the pups make their first fore race into the shallows. They, too, will return to these shores after a thousand mile journeys.

The rock-up of parents also take lead of their young, heading back into the war with joy of creature, returning to its elevant.