Friday 9 January 2009

Seals found on the Hout Bay Marina


The next day.our local cape fur seal has moved,he was on the far marina next to the red boat.I think he has some type of fishing line around his neck,it will be stopping him from moving and feeding properly?


Nice teeth!


Leopard Seals eat Penquins and other seals.


A local Cape Fur seal.

Nature Conservation in the Cape Provence forbids human contact with local seals marine animal life,there are some very good reasons for this!

The Leopard seal is the largest of the true Antarctic seals.

Leopard Seals are the only seals that eat other seals.

Leopard seals have excellent senses of sight and smell under water.

Leopard seals catch penguins by their feet and then beat them back and forth on the surface of the water to skin them. Then, they eat the carcass.

The local seals are common,they do not often climb on our marina walk ways but I found one just yesterday,I once found a Leopard Seal sitting out on marina finger too,what an Antartic Leopard Seal was doing so far north I have no idea,not to be played with?

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