(Photos by Eleni Kytinou)
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Shags feeding their chicks in a rather painful way (Sea Lion Island):
Skua eating a penguin chick alive (Sea Lion Island):
A male and a female sea lion, sleeping together (Sea Lion Island):
Male Elephant seals fighting violently (Sea Lion Island):
Orcas hunting near the coast (Sea Lion Island):
Caracara staring at us and our food (Sea Lion Island):
Eleni's close encounter with shags. Not having been hunted for many years (or never), most animals in the Falklands are not afraid of human presence. (Dunnose Head / West Falkland; photo: Frithjof Küpper)
Eleni diving in a kelp forest off the Tussoc Islands (photo: Frithjof Küpper)
Lab work at the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI):
Successful collection of the enigmatic Cladochroa chnoosporiformis:
A sea snail carries an entire ecosystem on its shell:
A new species of the brown algal genus Dictyota:
King penguins walking synchronized by the sea:
King penguins incubating their eggs:
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