LAGOON ISLAND, Antarctica (Reuters) - A group of elephant seals lolling by a damaged wooden hut in Antarctica vastly complicated simple repairs on Wednesday, a sign of extra hazards to people on the frozen continent.
"They're only smaller ones, about a tonne and a half each," John Loines, of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), said of more than a dozen of the blubbery seals lying on a beach by the hut on Lagoon Island on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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