Leopard
seals, named after its black-spotted coat is the second’s largest creature in
seals family can grows up from 3 to 3.5 meters and weight up to 380 kg. By their
looks, they may seems like the most adorably helpless, calm, tamed seals but
always bear in mind that leopard seal is the top of the food chain in
Antarctic. Powered by curiosity, this seal also known to hunt people eventhough
they usually make penguins as their main dish. In 1985, Scottish explorer Gareth Wood was
bitten twice on the leg when a leopard seal tried to
drag him off the ice and into the sea, and in 2003 a leopard seal dragged
snorkeling biologist Kirsty Brown underwater to her death.
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| Leopard Seal can open their mouth twice bigger than Grizzly Bear |
With its
sharp razor-like front teeth used to shredding meats and ability to open its
mouth twice bigger than Grizzly Bear makes them a deadly predator that you wish
you would never encounter in life. This seal like to wait under the ice ledges
where penguins’ favorite spot. Once the little guy jumps into the water, they
will snap it but makes it more disturbing is that after it catches its prey,
they will slaps the unlucky penguins across the surface of the water in order
to skin it before eat it.
