Stock Photo - Curious adult leopard seal Hydrurga leptonyx approaches Zodiac near Booth Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean MORE INFO The leopard seal is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic after the Southern Elephant Seal, and is near the top of the Antarctic food chain In 2003, a leopard seal dragged a snorkeling biologist underwater to her death in what was identified as the first known human fatality from a leopard seal However, numerous examples of aggressive behavior, stalking, and attacks on humans had been previously documented

Stock Photo: Curious adult leopard seal Hydrurga leptonyx approaches Zodiac near Booth Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean  MORE INFO The leopard seal is the second largest.

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