Buffet buddies: footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu
- Written by David Hocking, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University
A wild leopard seal on South Georgia.James Robbins, Author provided
Some people don’t like sharing their food – we all have a friend who gets cranky when you steal a chip from their plate. For wild animals, this makes sense, because any food shared is energy lost that could otherwise have been used to pursue more food.
So it was a big...