leopard seals

Check out my advertiser Leopard seals are shallow water hunters, and don’t dive deep like other seals of the Antarctic Weddell seals, Ross seals and Elephant seals, which can dive to 1000 feet (300 meters) in search of squid. Leopard seals have unusually loose . Last November they had a special on Leopard Seals and the pictures blew me away. Check these out:. Leopard Seal Mouth Leopard Seal Rips Head Off Penguin. Wow. Who knew Leopard Seals could be so fierce. Caption from the photo: . Leopard seals, by Paul Nicklen. Leopard Seals are the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic, and are near the top of the Antarctic food chain. Paul Nicklen won first prize in the Nature Stories category of the prestigious . Leopard Seals - National Geographic Magazine First large vertebrate extinction in fifty years Oyster toadfish. Freaky. Giant jellyfish Swingers. Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they? . Leopard seals are the second largest seal in the Antarctic, and they are one of the top keystone predators of their habitat. They are under the family category of Phocidae, or true seals. They have a completely unique genus and . Not your usual placid mammal is it? I like the look of these beasts. Anything that enjoys a Penguin in its food chain is :ok::ok: Seriously.Antarctica is only where these feckers live. What say a shipment of them is brought northwards . I expected this 12-foot-long (4 meters) female to flee with her catch, a live penguin chick, but instead she dropped it on my camera. Then she opened her mouth and engulfed the camera —and most of my head Leopard Seals are the 2nd largest species of seal in the Antarctic. Paul Nicklen won 1st prize in the Nature Stories category of the World Press Photo contest. The Ross seal is a particularly obscure animal, little seen and restricted to the Antarctic. The leopard seal is the real star member of this group, though - a sleek super-predator that can be over 3.5m long and 400kg, able to eliminate . In a death shake, the large female shreds a penguin chick by whipping it from side to side. It took 1/2000 of a second to freeze the action; at the time all I saw was a splash and storm petrels and gulls gathering for scraps