How to Use leopard seal in a Sentence

leopard seal

noun
  • Like clockwork, the leopard seal arrived in the lagoon just before low tide.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
  • No one is certain why marine mammals like whales, sea cows and leopard seals are so big.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The young gentoo penguin in the picture jumped into the lagoon to play during low tide — and got ambushed by the leopard seal.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Penguins constitute about a quarter of the leopard seal’s diet throughout the year.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • For instance, leopard seals make a living hunting down penguins and even other seals.
    National Geographic, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Young Gentoo penguins only enter the water at low tide, so fierce predators like the leopard seal use it to their advantage.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • National Geographic Critter Cams like the ones seen above also show how leopard seals prey on fur seal pups and steal food.
    Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The penguin must leave its home turf and venture into unfamiliar waters to face the peril of leopard seals that have jaws big enough to swallow a basketball.
    Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
  • In the ocean, though, penguins most contend with leopard seals, formidable hunters that specialize in warm-blooded prey.
    National Geographic, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Ou was rendered breathless by its smiling leopard seals and flourishing penguin colonies.
    Evelyn Wang, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Nachoum explains in a statement that just before the low tide arrived, a ravenous leopard seal scanned the shallows for its unsuspecting dinner to arrive.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Scientists have used remotely piloted aircraft to estimate the health of fragile polar mosses, to measure and predict the mass of leopard seals, and even to collect whale snot.
    Smithsonian, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Curiously, though, there have also been reports of leopard seals behaving in a friendly manner towards people—apparently trying to present gifts, in the form of prey, to divers.
    The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • That matters for leopard seals because they're considered ice-obligate animals.
    Craig Welch, National Geographic, 2 May 2019

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