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| How many Leopard seals can you spot? |
The past few days we have had incredible dingle weather where the sun is shinning and there is hardly any wind.
We have, however, not been able to dive due to voldemort like seals called Leopard seals. They have big mouths that are intimidating and a very visual hump behind their head. They can also get absolutely massive. They are usually solitary animals, which is why we were so surprised to see so many floating on an ice flow in the above photo. They are obviously full from feeding as they didn't move and hunt when there was penguins and Weddel seals next to them, if they don't eat either of them then then eat fish.
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| It's also dribbling. |
So when we see a leopard seal we can not dive for 4 hours, after that a 30 minute seal watch needs to be conducted.
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| Everything has been made much better by seeing a Gentoo penguin which is rarely seen at Rothera! |