A guide fended off an aggressive male fur seal with two walking poles in South Georgia.<br /><br />Most of the world’s population of Antarctic fur seals breed on South Georgia. Dominant males (bulls) form territories in late October to mid-November and try to keep up to 20 females inside it. <br /><br />Bulls aggressively defend their territories from other males, and some bulls die from their wounds.<br /><br />After weaning their pups, female seals return to sea and most males do so, too.<br /><br />But some bulls remain ashore and can be a hazard to visitors because they sometimes charge intruders. <br /><br />Fur seals have strong jaws and large yellow teeth – a bite causes a very serious wound. <br /><br />Charging male fur seals may be repelled by shouting, clacking rocks together, flapping jackets and, as a last resort, whacking their long whiskers with a walking pole.<br /><br />The video was filmed on November 2015.
