At any time there can be a hundred or more seal carcasses scattered along the beach, in various states of decomposition - some having been on the beach for many months. Some are the bodies of adult seals, but most are of pups and juveniles - all dead due to natural causes such as shark attack, disease, neonatal death etc. Gulls continue to feed on beached carcasses for weeks or months, until eventually, with the help of various invertebrates, the carcasses have been reduced to bones and dried shreds of hide.

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