New Zealand Fur Seal Stretching on White Rock Surface Under Blue Sky at Kaikoura Peninsula, New Zealand

Adult Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) hauled out on ice near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Male and female (on right) Grey Seals (Halichoerus grypus) fighting on the shore, in winter, at Donna Nook Nature Reserve, on the North Sea coast of Lincolnshire, Great Britain

A female Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) on the shore in winter, at Donna Nook Nature Reserve, on the North Sea coast of Lincolnshire, Great Britain.

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), feeding side-by-side on a fresh bearded seal kill on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Native children wearing seal skin clothing, Museum in Nanortalik Port, Island of Qoornoq, Province of Kitaa, Southern Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark, Polar Regions

Native man wearing seal skin clothing, Museum in Nanortalik Port, Island of Qoornoq, Province of Kitaa, Southern Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark, Polar Regions

South american fur seal (arctocephalus australis) native of south america and the falkland islands (captive bristol zoo)

An Inuit shop selling seal and whale meat in Ilulissat on Greenland, Polar Regions