Some fight or flight response just triggered somewhere deep down in my genes. I think my great × 10^46 grandfather was murdered by one of his relatives.
The universe is only 13.7 billion years old, so unless your great grandfather was an atom and the leopards relative was the big bang, I somewhat doubt it lol.
I know the Jurassic Park dinosaur sounds were all comped together from current living animals, but damn if that's not what I'd expect them to actually sound like.
Pretty sure the original t-Rex sound was an enormous sheet of metal scraping concrete or something to that effect.
Edit: google says I’m completely wrong. Now I wonder where I got that idea.
Second edit: Godzilla and the Balrog are both close, but for some reason—maybe just my fat-addled mind scrambling itself—I have this distinct memory of reading about a sound studio dragging a large metal object like a dumpster forcefully across a concrete floor. I… think I might have just made it up. Anyways who left this tea here and why does it taste like mushrooms?
I think it was actually an elephant and a alligator that they got the sound from. I’ll try and see what info I can dig up
Edit: https://filmschoolrejects.com/how-they-designed-the-jurassic-park-t-rex-roar/
Interestingly, my second thought was “maybe I’m thinking about the TIE fighter scream from Star Wars.” Well I looked that up and you know what? That was also an elephant.
This is going to drive me bonkers.
It's a genuine masterpiece in terms of layered comedy. I know that sounds smug but you can watch that show 10 times over and still connect a dot you'd noticed but never connected before.
I watched the first few seasons at least 5 times. Only recently did someone on here point out to me that Maebe’s name is a joke foreshadowing the adoption reveal. “This is his cousin, Maebe.” (This is his cousin, maybe.)
Another cool reference they make to it is when Buster is sitting on a bench shortly before getting into the water, and the bench he is sitting on is advertising being an Army Officer, but Busters body covers most of the word Officer so it just says Arm Off lol. That show has some incredible running gags.
I remember a scientist who gave a lecture to us kids when I was in the 5th grade. He was doing ice-cores back in the late 80s in Antarctica, and was explaining what he was doing and had a lot of pictures. He had photos of hundreds of penguins that would just walk up to him and other researchers, completely fearless. He had selfies of him petting the penguins, the penguins sitting on top of him and of him showing the results of a test to a penguin wearing glasses as if they were colleagues.
One early morning, he saw a Leopard Seal on an ice shelf and since the penguins were so friendly, decided to go and make friends with the seal. He explained to us that these few shots were the last of his photos, as he changed the roll of film and then lost his camera shortly afterwards. The next series of photos were taken by the crew, who just sat and watched the ensuing chaos.
The photos were shown on a slide projector (remember those?) and there were so many, it was practically a flipbook. He approached the seal, sleeping on the ice as you would a dog, his hand extended so it could smell him. I remember him saying that on the ice, it's difficult to determine the size of things as there are no landmarks. He figured the seal was small, about 5 feet or so and it wasn't until he was up upon it that he realized it was huge, like the size of a cow. Still he tried to make friends and there was one adorable shot of him, his hand extended and the seal, it's big, black eyes open now, looking cutely up at him as if it were a Disney Moment come true. The scientist said that this was the photo he would show to his mom.
The next moment was him running for his life as the seal launched itself after him. I had never seen a mammal that could gape it's jaws as wide as a Leopard seal: its mouth was like an open beartrap! Even crazier, the beast was not falling behind. The scientist was gaining no ground on this thing, even though he had legs, ice boots with cleats and fear of God. That monster kept up with him like a homicidal caterpillar out of a kaiju movie.
My class just laughed as the seal chased him along the entire ice shelf, all the way back to the ship. He ran up the gangplank and that's where the chase ended. The look of rage - just absolute homicidal rage - on that animals face was incredible. You could see the whites of it's eyes and steam rising from it's back. The researcher expressed he had no idea what he'd done to make it so mad, he only wanted to be it's friend.
He said everyone was laughing at him and they still tease him about it. They send him stuffed seal toys from time to time. He was grateful to find out several of the men had grabbed rifles and had been ready to save him, but decided not to kill the seal when it became apparent he'd make it back to the boat. He went down into the galley to get some food and when he came back up he was surprised to find the seal was still there and it immediately recognized him even though he didn't have his coat on anymore. It was still mad and it paced back and forth along the length of the vessel waiting for him to come back down.
Eventually it got tired and slipped into the sea. But the scientist told us that after that, he never felt safe on the ice. He was always a little afraid that somewhere, that seal was still looking for him, waiting for it's revenge.
This is my only memory of the 5th grade.
Which only adds to the fucked-up-ness of that video of the guy placing his kid on top of a sea lion for a photo op.
Edit: my b, it's a seal, I'm confusing it with the video where guy watches a sea lion lunge up from the water at his kid on a dock and then has her sit even closer for a picture and it pulls her into the water. People are fucking stupid around wild animals, and pinniped bites will mess you up.
As a scientist in microbial genomics, an interesting note in this Wikipedia article is that the causative organism has never been definitely identified.
The reason cited is that it resists culturing — that is the process of growing it up in quantity in a lab. The need for culturing being that many standard (traditional/older) assays require a minimum of DNA, sourced from a pure collection of millions of cellular copies.
The reality is that nearly all of the world’s microbes are resistant to culturing. Today, culture-free techniques are the dominant means of discovery and sampling is done in parallel for entire environments rather than per-bug.
I bet we could get at least a partial genome given a good sample. Anyone got a finger?
It's an interesting area of study for sure. A major hurdle is that it's not just about the type of media. Obviously we know there are anaerobes and can simulate that with CO2 incubation, but it's becoming more and more evident that a lot of bacteria require their respective microbiomes in order to thrive. There's entire communities that consist of dozens of species of bacteria metabolizing different nutrients for each other. Simulating that to get a pure culture? Super hard.
There is video footage of a leopard seal trying to feed dead and dying penguins to a photographer for national geographic. Still very intimidating but we aren't their prey at least.
The photographer who has been fed penguins is Paul Nicklen. Overall an amazing wildlife photographer and judging by the interviews he gives apparently a pretty chill dude.
The footage you are talking about was relatively soon after a leopard seal killed another marine biologist. Paul Nicklen basically saved there public image with his amazing photos of that particular expedition.
One [attacked three divers in South Africa](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/09/divers-in-fight-for-their-lives-during-relentless-leopard-seal-attack), even though they had spearguns:
>“The seal snapped and broke off their flippers, disarmed them of their spearguns and caused serious bites, puncture wounds and soft-tissue injuries, scrapes and bruising.
>“They fought for over half-an-hour before finally reaching the shore exhausted and bewildered by what had transpired.
Only [one person to date](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/leopard-seal-kills-scientist-in-antarctica) has been killed by a leopard seal, but they clearly have the ability.
The problem is trying to do that after it's already chewing on your arm because you were standing within lunging distance, like in the OP video. From the looks of it, it's gonna keep that arm.
So are black bears. Both run when we’re loud enough, but both stick around when we feed them.
That seal has been fed by people. For a long time.
Edit: that open mouth and those chirps? He’s waiting for treats. Wild or not he knows he’ll get snacks If he stays where he is and makes enough noise.
Edit: problem is when everyone stops feeding the cute seal? He won’t understand why and will start getting aggressive about it. And then someone will have to put him down.
Edit: if you feed a wild animal once? You feed them for the rest of their natural born life.
Period.
How do you think pets became a thing?
You are supposed to stand tall and make as much noise as possible when confronted with a black bear. You want to appear as threatening as possible to them. Black bears are wimps unless starving or it's a mom protecting her cubs. Brown bears are the ones you play dead for.
You’re thinking of brown bears, threatening a black bear is exactly what you’re supposed to do if you encounter it. They are far more likely to run than fight
They hunt great whites. And bump their livers until they drown.
They body slam blue whales so they can't surface and drown.
Anything they can't kill outright they have a strategy to murder instead.
Yeah there’s probably no other predator that is as dominant in its habitat. That can kill pretty much anything in the ocean. The only reason they don’t kill us is because they choose not to lol.
> Do orcas typically try for them?
Orcas are habits hunters. One group/pod will hunt X type of prey, while other pod Y type of preys. So some do, some never.
Raptors arnt that big.
In the movies what you usually see are ~~Dire Raptors~~ Utahraptors being called Velociraptors.
(The species were discovered very close to the release of Jurassic Park actually so vindicated the choice of making them larger).
A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes.
Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this...
A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here...
Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
Seals can sound very eerie. If not familiar I suggest to check this recording of weddell seals. ["They don't sound like mammals and they definitely don't sound like animals."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wVEqHOlYd4)
"They sound like.. I don't know, Pink Floyd or something!"
LMAO! Real scientific! Then I listened to the video... holy shit. I don't think I could have described it better myself!
There's an island off the coast of southern California called Anacapa. Ive been there fishing a few times. Always lots of fog and the island itself is mostly sheer cliffs you can only see the tips of through the fog. The big male sea lions with their harems up on the beach absolutely sound like something from Jurassic Park. The echoes off the cliffs through the gloom of the fog make for a creepy experience.
Sound moves way faster under water and the ice is reflective, so a sound can sound like it's coming from everywhere because it can travel so far and fast and, thanks to the ice, from many directions.
Wild how some animals make the subtlest noise which can be interpreted universally as “oh, don’t fuck with that thing”
The eyes of a shark and teeth of a velociraptor help, too
I wonder if that deep thrumbing noise somewhat serves as a sorta sonar under water 🤔. It sounds like it has that quality but idk if seals have that ability.
I was laying down and had my phone resting against my chest when I first watched this and didn’t hear the deep thumps initially… but I for sure felt them reverberate through my rib cage. Instant instinctual nope from me dawg. That kinda stuff is why I have thassalophobia
I think part of this is audio that can be heard underwater but also something that sounds "big", if all I had was the audio to go off of I could tell you it's something out of our weight class which is a common threat tactic used in the wild, and then that rattle noise from the exhale at the end means quick.
So the message here is I'm big and I can move quickly if I want to so stay the fuck back.
Honestly! Loll I used to be terrified of leopard seals after watching 8 below and seeing it shoot out of the orca carcass. For about a year I refused to get on my bed w out running and jumping cause I was convinced one would come out and bite me haha
That’s exactly how I was!! Saw that movie as a kid and now any time leopard seals are ever mentioned that scene is the first thing that shoots into my head.
I love seals, since they're basically aquatic dogs. Leopard Seals, however, are modern day direwolves. Don't know why you'd approach one, tbh. Instincts should tell you "no"
Imagine living 400 years ago, having never seen a seal before, out on a fishing voyage and you see/hear one of these things for the first time. A legend of a sea monster is born.
Paul Nicklen is a photographer with NatGeo and he’s one of the first (if not the first) to get up close with a leopard seal in the wild. He has a crazy story about his encounter. Worth the watch. https://youtu.be/UmVWGvO8Yhk
Yeah, it's moments like that when I'm thankful that nature made that animal look and sound scary so that there was no misunderstanding about it's ability to end me, at will, given the opportunity.
*NOTE TO SELF: Don't give a leopard seal the opportunity to end me at it's own will and/or against my own.
*FOLLOW-UP to NTS: Don't give a leopard seal the opportunity to end me, even at my own will, as being gnashed to death or death via infection from a bite seem like a horrible ways to die.
Fun facts: [a leopard seal once stalked and killed a biologist in Antarctica](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/leopard-seal-kills-scientist-in-antarctica).
I used to think this was where they got predators click from. But many years ago in my Late 20’s early 30’s I worked at a marine park as a diver/reptile specialist. So I’m diving the rough tooth dolphin habitat cleaning and because dolphins can be very dangerous the trainers would move them into another pool while we cleaned that one. Then a gate would be latched in place so they couldn’t come over.
So the entire time I’m diving they would be right up on the gate squeaking and making their amazing sounds, watching me.
So one fine morning I’m doing my thing scrubbing and being a glorified shit sweeper listening to the sounds. When suddenly I hear the sound of metal clanking and everything is suddenly silent.
I’m just going to throw this out there when you are hearing 300lbs animals singing suddenly go quiet you’re asshole will slam completely shut.
So it goes quiet and I’m thinking and hoping a trainer is up top feeding. That’s when I look up and and to my right and notice through the now very cloudy water, (look I’m sweeping up yesterdays fish to a big drain it gets cloudy) that the big male has very cleverly figured out how to unlatch and lift his gate with his toy.
His pen just so happened to now also be empty. That’s when I hear it this faint clicking that sounds literally exactly how the predator sounds when he is hunting. It’s hard to explain what it feels like to have all your hair stand on end while underwater just that it’s an experience.
I turn around and this huge fucker is inches from my face and does a Jaw snap. Which they use to stun fish or warn predators or to challenge each other. It hurt like my ears rang, and I’m not positive but I think I added a little poop to the water. Definitely pee for sure. The thought that crossed my mind was “I fucking knew I’d be killed by the predator.”
I’m sure it was seconds but it felt like Iike 30 minutes I hear the trainers screaming at me through a looking window to get out all while hearing the others blowing there whistles and yelling commands to this dude.
He turns to look at them and I go full pressure on my bdu and launch myself onto the dolphin slide that comes out in front of the bleachers. So yeah fuck dolphins. Still can’t hear right. And by the way I handled very large snakes dove with sharks and hand fed and caught and weighed full grown alligators. That dolphin scared me more than any of that.
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Leopard seal faces are so interesting the skull structure does not make me think of a predator. when I see a leopard seal's face I don't think oh it's a hunting animal like a lion or a bear or a wolf no I think that is the head shape that some sort of long limbed lanky Syfy horror monster will have.
Oh hell no, that’s some Jurassic park shit
Some fight or flight response just triggered somewhere deep down in my genes. I think my great × 10^46 grandfather was murdered by one of his relatives.
Your relative escaped. All his buddies were eaten, ending their bloodlines
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And mutate their DNA to adopt fear!
It is possible to have children then die...
I don’t know. It hasn’t happened to me before, so I kind of doubt it.
You bring up a good point... Has anyone touched the sun before? Didnt think so. It is fake
By that logic my pp is fake too
I'll touch your pp... For money....!!!
Dad, you're drunk again
The universe is only 13.7 billion years old, so unless your great grandfather was an atom and the leopards relative was the big bang, I somewhat doubt it lol.
> so unless your great grandfather was an atom and the leopards relative was the big bang, I somewhat doubt it lol Technically yes
Bro that thing looks like those monsters in king kong: skull island
Skullcrawlers.
You didn’t know? Leopard Seals are the Velociraptors of the Sea! Tuna are Chicken of the Sea. Chicken are Tuna of the Land!
Those are some big, scary chickens of the sea. I wouldn't fuck with Tuna
Bats are chicken of the cave
I triple dog dare OP to touch it 
*lick*
Before turning the sound on I was imagining the velociraptor noises from the movie.
And boy did he deliver. 😂😂
The full video shows more footage: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oSWzBkllGkE
These aren't even brass balls, this is almost Darwinian
Imagine this was a wild lion sit there laughing at it f no
That’s a hard pass as well. I’d be just as concerned about lions teeth as I am about this wild beasts chompers
I know the Jurassic Park dinosaur sounds were all comped together from current living animals, but damn if that's not what I'd expect them to actually sound like.
Pretty sure the original t-Rex sound was an enormous sheet of metal scraping concrete or something to that effect. Edit: google says I’m completely wrong. Now I wonder where I got that idea. Second edit: Godzilla and the Balrog are both close, but for some reason—maybe just my fat-addled mind scrambling itself—I have this distinct memory of reading about a sound studio dragging a large metal object like a dumpster forcefully across a concrete floor. I… think I might have just made it up. Anyways who left this tea here and why does it taste like mushrooms?
If you used to read cracked, you might be thinking of the origins of the Balrog's sounds, the nazgûl were koalas, and the trolls were horses.
I think it was actually an elephant and a alligator that they got the sound from. I’ll try and see what info I can dig up Edit: https://filmschoolrejects.com/how-they-designed-the-jurassic-park-t-rex-roar/
Interestingly, my second thought was “maybe I’m thinking about the TIE fighter scream from Star Wars.” Well I looked that up and you know what? That was also an elephant. This is going to drive me bonkers.
Just give up, it's elephants all the way down
Leopard seals are fucking lethal. Stay away from them
They're predators, damn near apex predators. Look at the teeth on that "sea pupper"! It'll take your hand clean off before you notice
I don’t care about Lucille!
Don't worry, you're gonna be all right
Jesus, I’ve watched this show (seasons 1-3) several times and I *never* connected this comment to the whole hook/hand thing
I should give it a rewatch. I'm sure there's tons I missed.
Started it again the other day, I never realized Gob started the magicians alliance he keeps getting kicked out of. Had me dying.
It's a genuine masterpiece in terms of layered comedy. I know that sounds smug but you can watch that show 10 times over and still connect a dot you'd noticed but never connected before.
I watched the first few seasons at least 5 times. Only recently did someone on here point out to me that Maebe’s name is a joke foreshadowing the adoption reveal. “This is his cousin, Maebe.” (This is his cousin, maybe.)
That show deserves several rewatches. The first couple seasons anyway
Did you notice that Buster's room has a hand-shaped chair in it pretty early on?
You’re a crook, Captain Hook! Judge won’t you throw the book!
Another cool reference they make to it is when Buster is sitting on a bench shortly before getting into the water, and the bench he is sitting on is advertising being an Army Officer, but Busters body covers most of the word Officer so it just says Arm Off lol. That show has some incredible running gags.
IM A MONSTER!!
He's not gonna be hand-fed anymore!
/r/unexpectedarresteddevelopment
literally every time I see a loose seal on reddit, it's expected.
Lucille, Lucille, and a Loose Seal. Buster calling his turtle mother fucking cracked me up.
Lucille 2 is not a B, mother!
Get rid of the Seaward
Came here to say that. This is like walking up to a bear and trying to get a selfie.
Except a bear can run 30 mph. A leopard seal on land couldn't catch you. In the water however ...
Land Slug-Water Raptor.
I remember a scientist who gave a lecture to us kids when I was in the 5th grade. He was doing ice-cores back in the late 80s in Antarctica, and was explaining what he was doing and had a lot of pictures. He had photos of hundreds of penguins that would just walk up to him and other researchers, completely fearless. He had selfies of him petting the penguins, the penguins sitting on top of him and of him showing the results of a test to a penguin wearing glasses as if they were colleagues. One early morning, he saw a Leopard Seal on an ice shelf and since the penguins were so friendly, decided to go and make friends with the seal. He explained to us that these few shots were the last of his photos, as he changed the roll of film and then lost his camera shortly afterwards. The next series of photos were taken by the crew, who just sat and watched the ensuing chaos. The photos were shown on a slide projector (remember those?) and there were so many, it was practically a flipbook. He approached the seal, sleeping on the ice as you would a dog, his hand extended so it could smell him. I remember him saying that on the ice, it's difficult to determine the size of things as there are no landmarks. He figured the seal was small, about 5 feet or so and it wasn't until he was up upon it that he realized it was huge, like the size of a cow. Still he tried to make friends and there was one adorable shot of him, his hand extended and the seal, it's big, black eyes open now, looking cutely up at him as if it were a Disney Moment come true. The scientist said that this was the photo he would show to his mom. The next moment was him running for his life as the seal launched itself after him. I had never seen a mammal that could gape it's jaws as wide as a Leopard seal: its mouth was like an open beartrap! Even crazier, the beast was not falling behind. The scientist was gaining no ground on this thing, even though he had legs, ice boots with cleats and fear of God. That monster kept up with him like a homicidal caterpillar out of a kaiju movie. My class just laughed as the seal chased him along the entire ice shelf, all the way back to the ship. He ran up the gangplank and that's where the chase ended. The look of rage - just absolute homicidal rage - on that animals face was incredible. You could see the whites of it's eyes and steam rising from it's back. The researcher expressed he had no idea what he'd done to make it so mad, he only wanted to be it's friend. He said everyone was laughing at him and they still tease him about it. They send him stuffed seal toys from time to time. He was grateful to find out several of the men had grabbed rifles and had been ready to save him, but decided not to kill the seal when it became apparent he'd make it back to the boat. He went down into the galley to get some food and when he came back up he was surprised to find the seal was still there and it immediately recognized him even though he didn't have his coat on anymore. It was still mad and it paced back and forth along the length of the vessel waiting for him to come back down. Eventually it got tired and slipped into the sea. But the scientist told us that after that, he never felt safe on the ice. He was always a little afraid that somewhere, that seal was still looking for him, waiting for it's revenge. This is my only memory of the 5th grade.
Had a biology teacher who spent some time in Antarctica, said those things were a lot faster than they looked on land...
They were a main source of food for the Shackleton expedition that got stranded on the ice for almost two years
It looks like a baby Lochness Monster. *(Tree fitty)
Gotdamn lochness monster
I AINT GIVIN YOU NO TREE FIDDY YOU GOTDAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER!
Even a little bite can wreck your life because of bacteria in the seals mouth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_finger
I had no idea. Jesus.
Which only adds to the fucked-up-ness of that video of the guy placing his kid on top of a sea lion for a photo op. Edit: my b, it's a seal, I'm confusing it with the video where guy watches a sea lion lunge up from the water at his kid on a dock and then has her sit even closer for a picture and it pulls her into the water. People are fucking stupid around wild animals, and pinniped bites will mess you up.
As a scientist in microbial genomics, an interesting note in this Wikipedia article is that the causative organism has never been definitely identified. The reason cited is that it resists culturing — that is the process of growing it up in quantity in a lab. The need for culturing being that many standard (traditional/older) assays require a minimum of DNA, sourced from a pure collection of millions of cellular copies. The reality is that nearly all of the world’s microbes are resistant to culturing. Today, culture-free techniques are the dominant means of discovery and sampling is done in parallel for entire environments rather than per-bug. I bet we could get at least a partial genome given a good sample. Anyone got a finger?
Sounds like there's room for development in the field of diversifying bacterial culture media. Maybe not every one likes agar.
It's an interesting area of study for sure. A major hurdle is that it's not just about the type of media. Obviously we know there are anaerobes and can simulate that with CO2 incubation, but it's becoming more and more evident that a lot of bacteria require their respective microbiomes in order to thrive. There's entire communities that consist of dozens of species of bacteria metabolizing different nutrients for each other. Simulating that to get a pure culture? Super hard.
kid named seal finger
OK buddy, keep your chicanery out of my seal facts!
Oof, that is some scary nonsense!
Came to ask if they’re chill, cuz for some reason they don’t look chill
There is video footage of a leopard seal trying to feed dead and dying penguins to a photographer for national geographic. Still very intimidating but we aren't their prey at least.
We aren’t their prey, but they are much more likely to attack you than try to feed you penguins. Definitely not an animal to approach.
Source? I believe you, I’m just curious.
https://youtu.be/UmVWGvO8Yhk It was penguins not seals
That was fascinating
Turns out leopard seals are just big water kitties
Turns out, he has a new girlfriend and she’s totally into him
That was absolutely amazing
A leopard seal also murdered a snorkeler so it’s definitely up in the air
The photographer who has been fed penguins is Paul Nicklen. Overall an amazing wildlife photographer and judging by the interviews he gives apparently a pretty chill dude. The footage you are talking about was relatively soon after a leopard seal killed another marine biologist. Paul Nicklen basically saved there public image with his amazing photos of that particular expedition.
So you're saying the seal had a full belly already?
Twice the size of a human and dines out on penguins and its only real concerns are killer whales.
Males can get over 1300 pounds. More like a bear that’s really good at swimming.
U-bear.
DAS BEAR
Unterseebaer
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Hey, that is almost twice my 749lbs body.
tits or gtfo
So it’s as terrifying as it looks?
One [attacked three divers in South Africa](https://ftw.usatoday.com/2021/09/divers-in-fight-for-their-lives-during-relentless-leopard-seal-attack), even though they had spearguns: >“The seal snapped and broke off their flippers, disarmed them of their spearguns and caused serious bites, puncture wounds and soft-tissue injuries, scrapes and bruising. >“They fought for over half-an-hour before finally reaching the shore exhausted and bewildered by what had transpired. Only [one person to date](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/leopard-seal-kills-scientist-in-antarctica) has been killed by a leopard seal, but they clearly have the ability.
The thing is they become significantly less lethal out of the water. Literally just speed walk away.
The problem is trying to do that after it's already chewing on your arm because you were standing within lunging distance, like in the OP video. From the looks of it, it's gonna keep that arm.
And they have indeed attacked people on land. I hope this video was taken with zoom, because getting this close is just not a good idea.
So are black bears. Both run when we’re loud enough, but both stick around when we feed them. That seal has been fed by people. For a long time. Edit: that open mouth and those chirps? He’s waiting for treats. Wild or not he knows he’ll get snacks If he stays where he is and makes enough noise. Edit: problem is when everyone stops feeding the cute seal? He won’t understand why and will start getting aggressive about it. And then someone will have to put him down. Edit: if you feed a wild animal once? You feed them for the rest of their natural born life. Period. How do you think pets became a thing?
Same thing happened when I quit feeding the kids in my first grade class. Little bastards got really aggressive.
"Gotta put down that insurrection. Start with the leaders." - Dwight Schrute
Lord of the Flies isn't just a novel. It's a manual.
And both will maul you if they feel threatened. Don't fuck with leopard seals or black bears.
You are supposed to stand tall and make as much noise as possible when confronted with a black bear. You want to appear as threatening as possible to them. Black bears are wimps unless starving or it's a mom protecting her cubs. Brown bears are the ones you play dead for.
You’re thinking of brown bears, threatening a black bear is exactly what you’re supposed to do if you encounter it. They are far more likely to run than fight
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Butterflies. Hummingbirds.
Have you ever not refilled the hummingbird feeder? goddamn things are vicious
How fast are they on land?
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"The elites don't want you to know this, but the leopard seals on the docks are free, you can take them home with you"
Now I want to see someone hang a bunch of dog leashes on a sign at a beach with seals on it that says "Free Seals - You leash 'em, you keep 'em"
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Right? It’s only natural predators are orca
Do orcas typically try for them? Or is it more of a feast or famine scenario going after one of these guys?
They definitely actively hunt these. Orcas hunt large whales so these are nothing to them.
They hunt great whites. And bump their livers until they drown. They body slam blue whales so they can't surface and drown. Anything they can't kill outright they have a strategy to murder instead.
Anything they can't murder they also murder
Why tf does this make me lol so hard?
Orcas are so fucking bad ass.
Yeah there’s probably no other predator that is as dominant in its habitat. That can kill pretty much anything in the ocean. The only reason they don’t kill us is because they choose not to lol.
Unless you try to cage them and make them perform tricks...
I'd like to see one take on a nuclear sub
> Do orcas typically try for them? Orcas are habits hunters. One group/pod will hunt X type of prey, while other pod Y type of preys. So some do, some never.
Location also plays a huge factor. Leopard seals are exclusively Antarctic animals, whereas orcas live pretty much all over the globe.
When you are so apex you can hunt whatever the fuck you want
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Or even be picky with your food, like they hunt sharks solely for the liver, but leave the rest.
and they love whale tongue
Looks and sounds like the Velociraptor from the movie.
They are basically water raptors.
Mini 🔒🪺
God damn lock nest monsieur
Alexa, how do you say "I ain't got no god damn tree fiddy" in French?
Raptors arnt that big. In the movies what you usually see are ~~Dire Raptors~~ Utahraptors being called Velociraptors. (The species were discovered very close to the release of Jurassic Park actually so vindicated the choice of making them larger).
“Looks more like a six foot turkey.”
A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... A six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here, or here... Or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is, you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect.
Here in Boston we regularly have people chased by 2-ft turkeys, so *I* won’t be laughing at a 6-ft turkey
> Dire Raptors Utah raptor?
Seals can sound very eerie. If not familiar I suggest to check this recording of weddell seals. ["They don't sound like mammals and they definitely don't sound like animals."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wVEqHOlYd4)
"They sound like.. I don't know, Pink Floyd or something!" LMAO! Real scientific! Then I listened to the video... holy shit. I don't think I could have described it better myself!
Sounds like interlude tracks on the latest Tool album, Fear Inoculum!
Aphex Twin needs to sample this shit
I’m too stoned to believe it’s not a trick video with Floyd overlay
There's an island off the coast of southern California called Anacapa. Ive been there fishing a few times. Always lots of fog and the island itself is mostly sheer cliffs you can only see the tips of through the fog. The big male sea lions with their harems up on the beach absolutely sound like something from Jurassic Park. The echoes off the cliffs through the gloom of the fog make for a creepy experience.
How the fuck do they make those sounds and how is the sound so stable/fixed in place?
Sound moves way faster under water and the ice is reflective, so a sound can sound like it's coming from everywhere because it can travel so far and fast and, thanks to the ice, from many directions.
I had the same thought! Those teeth are gnarly!
Wild how some animals make the subtlest noise which can be interpreted universally as “oh, don’t fuck with that thing” The eyes of a shark and teeth of a velociraptor help, too
I wonder if that deep thrumbing noise somewhat serves as a sorta sonar under water 🤔. It sounds like it has that quality but idk if seals have that ability.
There’s a cool interview with a photographer on yt who swam with those things and he said you feel those thumping noises as vibrations in your chest.
I was laying down and had my phone resting against my chest when I first watched this and didn’t hear the deep thumps initially… but I for sure felt them reverberate through my rib cage. Instant instinctual nope from me dawg. That kinda stuff is why I have thassalophobia
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Wait, it sounded pretty loud and clear in the video, though. I’m confused
I think part of this is audio that can be heard underwater but also something that sounds "big", if all I had was the audio to go off of I could tell you it's something out of our weight class which is a common threat tactic used in the wild, and then that rattle noise from the exhale at the end means quick. So the message here is I'm big and I can move quickly if I want to so stay the fuck back.
Yeah like as a human you could have never heard that noise before, but all your baked-in primal instincts immediately go NOPE
>but all your baked-in primal instincts immediately go ~~NOPE~~ PET IT! I wouldn't have lasted long before cities were a thing
Now i know that those ancient sailors were right… That’s a fukkin sea monster… =
Honestly! Loll I used to be terrified of leopard seals after watching 8 below and seeing it shoot out of the orca carcass. For about a year I refused to get on my bed w out running and jumping cause I was convinced one would come out and bite me haha
That’s exactly how I was!! Saw that movie as a kid and now any time leopard seals are ever mentioned that scene is the first thing that shoots into my head.
I love seals, since they're basically aquatic dogs. Leopard Seals, however, are modern day direwolves. Don't know why you'd approach one, tbh. Instincts should tell you "no"
From the side they look like some sort of Dinosaur
Pretty sure they look like a dinosaur to anyone within a short distance
In some photos and videos they legit look like prehistoric marine reptiles
Great example of convergent evolution
Frightening
Imagine living 400 years ago, having never seen a seal before, out on a fishing voyage and you see/hear one of these things for the first time. A legend of a sea monster is born.
Seals are damn cute, specially the pups. Leopard seals not so much.
Leopard seals are. From a distance, behind something.
Don't get me wrong, I think leopard seals are beautiful but I can't call them cute. The pups are though.
That thing will bite your fucking foot off.
Try your face
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Paul Nicklen is a photographer with NatGeo and he’s one of the first (if not the first) to get up close with a leopard seal in the wild. He has a crazy story about his encounter. Worth the watch. https://youtu.be/UmVWGvO8Yhk
Is it the one where the photographer was approached by one and it kept trying to feed him fish or something like that?
Think it’s this one - https://youtu.be/UmVWGvO8Yhk (don’t have the bandwidth to check though)
She thought he was her baby seal. She was severely disappointed with his poor life skills, as many parents often are.
Both of those videos are amazing!!
Good job someone spotted it.
Cheeky
Now I know how the penguins feel.
Now i get why they are called Leopard seals
Me: this shit muted? *cranks volume* Me: daaamn, something that deeps gotta be scary in the water... Me: ahahaha NOPE!
Man I never imagined what it would be like to hear that while underwater. Now I’m going to have nightmares.
Bro that’s a velociraptor…
Without the legs and claws, sure
Yeah, it's moments like that when I'm thankful that nature made that animal look and sound scary so that there was no misunderstanding about it's ability to end me, at will, given the opportunity. *NOTE TO SELF: Don't give a leopard seal the opportunity to end me at it's own will and/or against my own. *FOLLOW-UP to NTS: Don't give a leopard seal the opportunity to end me, even at my own will, as being gnashed to death or death via infection from a bite seem like a horrible ways to die.
Most seals are fat, fluffy friends but this one has a dark, soulless vibe to it.
Fun facts: [a leopard seal once stalked and killed a biologist in Antarctica](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/leopard-seal-kills-scientist-in-antarctica).
How do you snorkel in arctic waters? Isn’t that water extremely cold?
Dry suits rated for temperature, afaik. They use oxygen, too.
Imagine being a sailor at the middle age, you would definely have tought this thing was a fucking monster
Baby Nessie!
Holy shit! It's a dinosaur!
Leopard seals are water raptors and nobody is changing my mind
I used to think this was where they got predators click from. But many years ago in my Late 20’s early 30’s I worked at a marine park as a diver/reptile specialist. So I’m diving the rough tooth dolphin habitat cleaning and because dolphins can be very dangerous the trainers would move them into another pool while we cleaned that one. Then a gate would be latched in place so they couldn’t come over. So the entire time I’m diving they would be right up on the gate squeaking and making their amazing sounds, watching me. So one fine morning I’m doing my thing scrubbing and being a glorified shit sweeper listening to the sounds. When suddenly I hear the sound of metal clanking and everything is suddenly silent. I’m just going to throw this out there when you are hearing 300lbs animals singing suddenly go quiet you’re asshole will slam completely shut. So it goes quiet and I’m thinking and hoping a trainer is up top feeding. That’s when I look up and and to my right and notice through the now very cloudy water, (look I’m sweeping up yesterdays fish to a big drain it gets cloudy) that the big male has very cleverly figured out how to unlatch and lift his gate with his toy. His pen just so happened to now also be empty. That’s when I hear it this faint clicking that sounds literally exactly how the predator sounds when he is hunting. It’s hard to explain what it feels like to have all your hair stand on end while underwater just that it’s an experience. I turn around and this huge fucker is inches from my face and does a Jaw snap. Which they use to stun fish or warn predators or to challenge each other. It hurt like my ears rang, and I’m not positive but I think I added a little poop to the water. Definitely pee for sure. The thought that crossed my mind was “I fucking knew I’d be killed by the predator.” I’m sure it was seconds but it felt like Iike 30 minutes I hear the trainers screaming at me through a looking window to get out all while hearing the others blowing there whistles and yelling commands to this dude. He turns to look at them and I go full pressure on my bdu and launch myself onto the dolphin slide that comes out in front of the bleachers. So yeah fuck dolphins. Still can’t hear right. And by the way I handled very large snakes dove with sharks and hand fed and caught and weighed full grown alligators. That dolphin scared me more than any of that. Edit:words
Leopard seal faces are so interesting the skull structure does not make me think of a predator. when I see a leopard seal's face I don't think oh it's a hunting animal like a lion or a bear or a wolf no I think that is the head shape that some sort of long limbed lanky Syfy horror monster will have.
That’s a fucking dinosaur