Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Elephant seals fighting.jpg

Elephant seals fighting

Original - Male Northern Elephant Seals fight fiercely each year. Unsuccessful males will not mate at all, while successful males have harems of 30 to 100 females.

Reason

The elephant seal reproduction system is quite fascinating, and this is a great action shot highlighting the battles between males for who gets to reproduce. This was cropped from a larger photo, so if anyone wants to make an edit, you should check out the original on flickr.

Articles this image appears in

Northern Elephant Seal, Sexual selection

Creator

Mike Baird

• Support as nominator Calliopejen1 (talk) 05:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Support Although the techinal quality seems OK to me, somthing about it just doesn't seem FP quality. I'm not quite sure what, but it is just doesn't have the 'wow!'. Juliancolton (Talk) 15:45, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Question - Why isn't there a 'wow' in two elephant seals trying to rip each other's heads off??? Booksworm ^{Sprechen-sie Koala?} 20:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

• Support meets all the criteria.--Svetovid (talk) 17:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support - as per above. The action in this image and the emotion is very strong - very high 'wow', IMHO. Booksworm ^{Sprechen-sie Koala?} 20:34, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Support Nice. —αἰτίας •discussion• 22:45, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Elephant seals fighting.jpg MER-C 05:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)