Elephant seals gross me the heck out. I've done a quick little image search and collected some evidence that will hopefully begin to explain why. Sadly, images aren't really sufficient to convey their nastiness; for the full elephant seal gross-out experience you really need to see documentary footage. The Blue Planet has a fairly representative segment on them. Nevertheless, still photos are a good starting point. I'll just let the images speak for themselves, I think, and present them below without further commentary.
It should perhaps be noted that I don't own the copyright to any of these images. If you do own the copyrights to one or more of them, and you object to my use of them, email me and I'll remove it (or them) immediately.
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