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easyday
04-21-2013, 05:18 PM
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/04/14/14/09/friendly-seal-hugs-bottom-of-kayak

Dont know if anyone has seen this but would be pretty cool to have one playing and not stealing fish...
danjor
04-21-2013, 06:23 PM
That's cool. Never would have taken a leopard seal for being playful
sasha
04-22-2013, 02:11 PM
Those animals are huge.. Had a friend who worked over there for a couple of years. He mentioned that leopard seals are very aggresive and not afraid of anything or anyone. They are at the top of the food chain out there and they know it. Thats a once in a life time experience.
jruiz
04-22-2013, 02:54 PM
It was attempting to mate with the kayak. They should check their scupper holes:D
spottie slayer
04-22-2013, 03:04 PM
Those animals are huge.. Had a friend who worked over there for a couple of years. He mentioned that leopard seals are very aggresive and not afraid of anything or anyone. They are at the top of the food chain out there and they know it. Thats a once in a life time experience.

I may be mistaken but don't orcas eat those things? So their not technically at the top of the foodchain.
sasha
04-22-2013, 07:37 PM
I asked him same question and he said that orcas rarely come in that area and they looked for easier prey. Yes in the ocean Orcas are at the very top of the food chain, He worked on a research ship called HERO .Lots of very cool stories and pics that could easy be on the NG.
Fiskadoro
04-23-2013, 02:41 AM
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/04/14/14/09/friendly-seal-hugs-bottom-of-kayak Dont know if anyone has seen this but would be pretty cool to have one playing and not stealing fish...

Friendly Leopard seal... I'll pass!!! They make our seals look like kittens.

Those things are killers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jul/24/science.highereducation

"...A 28-year-old marine biologist has been killed by Antarctica's most dangerous predator, a leopard seal, while on a snorkelling mission at a British research base...."
MrPatrick
04-23-2013, 07:13 AM
My father worked at sea world in the 70s and said that the vets there refused to have a leopard seal there. They were terrified of the Stellar Sea Lion male and feared the Leopard seal more.