Children by the Leopard Seal

Shuva from Hyderabad, India

I like the second picture very much...it shows that the seal is at the mercy (legs of humans resembling mercy) of human beings. It needs help.

18 Jul 2006 5:40am

Hervé from Paris, France

Sad sad story... I'm not sure the fishes think the same as I do...

18 Jul 2006 8:18am

Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium

A sad story but well documented. Aurelie - I really like your photo - illustrates the scene and the relation of the kids to the seal well.

To answer your question about vfxy - I don't win anything - it's more an ego pump to get a higher rating since I can't seem to shake my 5/10 rank but I guess I won't worry too much about it :)

18 Jul 2006 9:06am

Leslie Horacek from Brussels, Belgium

Good photos, both.

Wow, that is some chunk of missing hide off the side of him! It is a little sad that they just left him there to be "gawked upon" as he lay dying. Wonder what was going through his mind? ("I should have turned left" ....or.....Damn, that blasted shark! I'm gonna get him in my next lifetime!! ....or....."hey kid, can you throw me a peanut, a fish, I'll take whatever you got!")

18 Jul 2006 11:52am

Double H from Canada

Looks as if the poor fella got harpooned a la Moby Dick... crazy New Zealand fisherman!

18 Jul 2006 5:08pm

Wendy from Canada

This is so sad --allowing a seal to suffer like that. they should have put him out of his misery.

19 Jul 2006 1:23am