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Neil (born 2020), southern elephant seal in Tasmania, Australia. Owha, a leopard seal who resided in the northern North Island of New Zealand. Popeye, a harbour seal who would often go to the marina of Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, Washington.
The skull of the leopard seal. The leopard seal has a distinctively long and muscular body shape when compared to other seals. The overall length of adults is 2.4–3.5 m (7.9–11.5 ft) and their weight is in the range 200 to 600 kilograms (440 to 1,320 lb), making them the same length as the northern walrus but usually less than half the weight.
Taronga Zoo was once home to the world's only leopard seals living in a zoo. Leopard seals are native to Antarctica but on rare occasions, will come up to Australia's coastlines during the late winter months. From 1999 - 2014 Taronga housed three different leopard seals, Brooke, Sabine (females) and Casey (male).
This is a list of mammals of South Australia. It includes all mammals recorded in South Australia since European settlement, including some known only from subfossil remains, and including non-feral introduced species. Except where otherwise referenced, this list is based upon Kemper, Catherine; Reardon, Terry; Queale, Lynette (2000). "Mammals".
Family: Otariidae (eared seals) Genus: Arctocephalus. Cape fur seal, Arctocephalus pusillus LC; New Zealand fur seal, Arctocephalus fosteri LC; Family: Phocidae (true seals) Genus: Mirounga. Southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina LC; Genus: Hydrurga. Leopard seal, Hydrurga leptonyx LC
Southern African and Australian coasts (dark blue indicates breeding grounds) Size: Male: 201–227 cm (79–89 in) ... Leopard seal. H. leptonyx (Blainville, 1820)
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The leopard seal is known to prey on many other species, especially the crabeater seal. Leopard seals typically target crabeater pups, particularly from November to January. Older crabeater seals commonly bear scars from failed leopard seal attacks; a 1977 study found that 75% of a sample of 85 individual crabeaters had these scars.