Comments on: Leopard seals suck

By: Cw(Willamsburg)

Cw(Willamsburg) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:13:28 +0000

This was really cool. I had no idea that leopard seals sucked small fish instead of flat out chomping down on them.

By: Nathan Myers

Nathan Myers — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:12:09 +0000

So, really, we should say they’re the bears of the Antarctic.

By: brux

brux — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:02:04 +0000

^don’t tell us… you haven’t RTF[linked]A yet?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:14:37 +0000

But as Hocking searched the literature to confirm this, “it became apparent that nobody had ever actually observed leopard seals underwater [while they fed] on small prey like krill.”

Sometimes the novelty is actually showing that it really happens

By: E.

E. — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:52:37 +0000

It has been well known for years that leopard seals eat krill and indeed in some areas thin on other prey the leopard seals subsist largely upon it, and that they have adapted a tooth structure that allows them to have this flexible diet. What is new here?