Jason Freeman, New Zealand Sea Lions (January theme 'FAUNA')

(Phocarctos hookeri) also known as Hooker's sea lion. The female (R) and male (L) in a courtship display on Sandfly beach, Otago. Numbering only around 10,000, these mammals remain endangered.

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