Individual leopard seals specialize in specific prey types despite being generalist species, reshaping ecosystem dynamics.

When the penguin jumps into the water, the seal ambushes it. The leopard seal uses suction to eat smaller fish and crustaceans. When it hunts for krill, the leopard seal uses filter feeding.

Researchers have noted they tend to eat more crabeater seal pups in November, for example, as they grow in availability, while leopard seals forage more krill during late September as well as March.

The penguin who arrived in Australia did not seem to have been flummoxed too much by its new surroundings, even when finding itself on a beach with surfers, instead of sea ice. The penguin ...

A penguin that had escaped a leopard seal took a boat ride with a group of tourists back to an iceberg. Tourist expedition guide and photographer Vladimir Seliverstov, 50, captured the moment an ...

Leopard seals are the only seal species known to actively prey on other seals, taking pups of crabeater, Weddell, Ross, southern elephant and Antarctic fur seals. Extensive predation by leopard seals ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Another day in December means the BioPark has added two more animals to this year’s Naughty or Nice list. One animal is making their debut. Ike, a penguin hatched at ...

The male leopard seal produced 65 underwater calls, primarily low- and high-double trills, directed at the female. The female made seven in-air calls, including thump pulses, noseblasts and growls.

Plasticity in the morphometrics and movements of an Antarctic apex predator, the leopard seal. Frontiers in Marine Science , 2022; 9 DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.976019 Cite This Page : ...

Leopard Seal Behavior. ... since the jaws of leopard seals are so powerful that they can literally “flay a penguin by shaking it so violently its skin peels off,” as the photographer writes. ...

Fowler had seen plenty of dolphins and other creatures in the waves, including one leopard seal, which is also native to Antarctica, but he never expected a penguin. “We were in shock,” he said.