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Leopard Seals
NOVEMBER 2006
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Ripped Apart
Photograph by Paul Nicklen
In a death shake, the large female shreds a penguin chick by whipping it from side to side. It took 1/2000 of a second to freeze the action; at the time all I saw was a splash and storm petrels and gulls gathering for scraps. This efficient killing machine prizes above all else penguin stomachs stuffed with krill.
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