A heavyweight pair of visitors are being cared for on a beach outside Port Elizabeth after a dramatic rescue and a rare phenomenon that has occurred only three times before on the South African coast. 

The 500 to 600kg elephant seal and her hefty four-day-old pup will be watched over by a team of volunteers until weaning is complete and the mother sets off again for the Southern Antarctic Ocean in three weeks’ time, Bayworld marine biologist and Stranding Network co-ordinator Dr Greg Hofmeyr said on Sunday...