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Melee
Apart from the obvious tenderness between a Mother & her pup the grey seal breeding colony is also a cauldron of aggressively protective mothers who'll attack anything coming near their pup & testosterone charged male bulls who know that when the pups wean at three weeks old the females are then receptive to mate.
The bulls don't eat for weeks while they tirelessly patrol their harem waiting for the right time & fending off other males who try & encroach on their females.
A large dominant bull (weighing up to fifty stone) will have few challengers but when the bulls are more evenly matched like the two in the photo above then a fight will occur which normally doesn't last long but will cause the pups & mothers to scuttle to a safe distance to avoid being crushed by the fighting bulls
Melee
Apart from the obvious tenderness between a Mother & her pup the grey seal breeding colony is also a cauldron of aggressively protective mothers who'll attack anything coming near their pup & testosterone charged male bulls who know that when the pups wean at three weeks old the females are then receptive to mate.
The bulls don't eat for weeks while they tirelessly patrol their harem waiting for the right time & fending off other males who try & encroach on their females.
A large dominant bull (weighing up to fifty stone) will have few challengers but when the bulls are more evenly matched like the two in the photo above then a fight will occur which normally doesn't last long but will cause the pups & mothers to scuttle to a safe distance to avoid being crushed by the fighting bulls