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After breeding season, the adult seals mate.
The scars are caused by fighting betweeen mals in breeding
season later stage. They respond with growing, aggressive
flipper-waving, head-butting, scratching, or biting. It seems to
carry out most fightings at the night. To observe such intense
fighting is for the first time.
It continues"Male-male fighting of Harbor seals 2".

Niizuma, A. 1986. Socio-ecology and reproductive strategy of the
Kuril seal. In(Wada, K., Itoo, T., Niizuma, T., Hayama, S., and
Suzuki, M., eds¡ËProceedings of the symposium on the ecology and
protection of the Kuril seal. pp. 59-102. Tokai University Press,
Tokyo (in Japanese with English summary).

(Data No.momo050113pv02b)

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