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Murder On The High Seas

Category: Megavertebrate
Posted on: July 28, 2008 10:45 AM, by CR McClain

Telegraph UK is running an amazing series of photos of great white attacking a seal.

That's going to leave a mark.

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I wonder if these are stills from the Planet Earth sessions.

Its Shark Week at Discovery Channel too!

Posted by: kevin z | July 28, 2008 11:30 AM

For those of us more familiar with pinnipeds, this appears to actually be a sea lion. Take a look at the length of the pectoral flippers. Likely a female.

Posted by: keely | July 29, 2008 1:01 PM

Actually I lied. For those of us familiar with female stellar sea lions off the BC coast, this picture actually looks remarkably similar to those females.

It is a Northern Cape Fur Seal, which totally tricked me out!

A learning experience...

Posted by: keely | July 29, 2008 1:05 PM

That's going to leave a mark.

You bet; that shark is sure going to feel the tail-slap he's about to get.

Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | July 29, 2008 6:09 PM

Supposedly, last week a seal-watching cruise off Martha's Vineyard saw a ~14 foot great white blast a seal, to the delight of some passengers and the horror of others...

Posted by: JSinger | July 30, 2008 7:30 AM

Kevin, Keely
I'm sure that's a fur seal and that this was taken off seal island, south africa (where the Planet Earth and first Air Jaws scenes were shot). I'm fairly sure the Telegraph credit for Chris Fellows is incorrect too and these shots were taken by RSA white shark guru Chris Fallows. I went out looking for mako with him in 2005 - he's a really cool guy who really knows his stuff, not just GWS or sharks but birds, whales and all sorts. We didn't see any makos but I learned a hell of a lot about other stuff.

Posted by: tai haku | July 31, 2008 11:12 AM