Why Everything in Antarctica is Terrified of The Leopard Seal

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  @TheBlueWilds · 2 months ago · pinned

  I hear you in the comments...Orcas. While they CAN kill and eat Leopard Seals, it is a very risky meal for the Orca and they would much rather go for something that wont fight back.

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• LO

  @lorchid23 · 2 months ago

  The thought of willingly entering the water with a leopard seal is incomprehensible to me.

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• JO

  @joecaner · 2 months ago

  You couldn&apos;t pay me enough to go diving in the icy cold Antarctic waters, and<br>Getting into that same water with a 600 kg apex predator seems completely insane.

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• RO

  @Robert_A_Keyboards4948 · 2 months ago

  Orcas are still the apex predator. They do avoid leopard seals because of how vicious they are. However if hungry enough, they will indeed team up and hunt leopard seals. Orcas are smart and they still rule the ocean.

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• JO

  @JohnShields-xx1yk · 2 months ago

  They are like a 12&apos; long 1500 lb ocean going rottweiler with a bite and power to kill a human easily.

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• JE

  @jerz1800 · 2 months ago

  THERE IS A PREDATOR THAT HAS NO NATURAL ENEMIES <br><br>Orca: hmmm interesting

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  @737driver8 · 2 months ago

  It took the baby penguin and the parent chased...solid.

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• DM

  @dmhq-administration · 2 months ago

  The teeth on a Leopard Seal are BADASS AF! 😎🤘🏻

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• OO

  @Oomzilla · 2 months ago

  Why oh why would anyone get in the water with a leopard seal, why?

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• NI

  @nikbear · 2 months ago

  There is something very prehistoric about the leopard seal 😮 it&apos;s a proper scary beasty! Beautiful,.....but disturbing 😮

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• TH

  @TheLivingCodeScience · 2 weeks ago

  That part about leopard seals singing underwater was unexpected. Antarctica is absolutely wild.

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  @hermannmaier0 · 1 month ago (edited)

  I worked at McMurdo in the late 80&apos;s, and there was a story about a researcher, some years earlier, who was walking out on the sea ice and a Leopard Seal tracked him or his shadow from under the ice, &nbsp;and punched up through the ice right next to him,...as they do to get penguins, ... and the leopard seal chomped into the guys calf muscle and ripped it off his leg and slipped back into the ice with his &quot;edible tissue&quot;.

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