View elephant seals on Argentina's southern coast and Magellan penguins on the country's Valdes Peninsula

View elephant seals on Argentina's southern coast and Magellan penguins on the country's Valdes Peninsula

Elephant seals and Magellan penguins live along Argentina's southern coast.
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NARRATOR: Colonies of elephant seals live along Argentina's southern coast.

Also here, at Valdes Peninsula, the Magellan penguins breed. These flightless birds are named after the Spanish explorer who was the first European to sail around Cape Horn.

We may think of penguins as residents of only Antarctica, but the Magellans are perfectly at home farther north, along the southern coast of Argentina.