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A super weaner (also super-weaner or superweaner) is an exceptionally large elephant seal at weaning age. Super weaners may reach their large sizes by stealing milk from nursing female elephant seals or by being adopted by an additional mother elephant seal. Background Elephant seals have an abrupt weaning process, in which the weaned juvenile seal does not receive assistance from its parents in finding food. The postweaning period is important for the seals' development, with a high mortality rate. Phenomenon A super weaner, an elephant seal at weaning age which obtains milk from multiple females, can weigh . A typical elephant seal at the same age weighs between and . While most mother elephant seals will bite weaned elephant seals that attempt to suckle, some will allow it for unknown reasons; some super weaners also obtain the additional milk through theft. Instances A study carried out on Año Nuevo Island in California between 1972 and 1977 observed the existence o ...
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Juvenile Elephant Seal During Molt
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