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
• Photographer Paul Nicklen is still awestruck by his face time with a leopard seal in 2006.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Weighing in at over 1,200 pounds, a leopard seal looks like the prehistoric marine species that once took on the dinosaurs.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 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
• Amos Nachoum was awarded the grand prize for his image of a leopard seal hunting a penguin.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022
• Without many other fledglings around, the young penguins may be more likely to become a meal for a hungry leopard seal.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• Penguins constitute about a quarter of the leopard seal’s diet throughout the year.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• The leopard seal is a semi-aquatic mammal and an apex predator in Antarctica.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2022
• 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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