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lancaster
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Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark
      #225398 - 16/02/13 06:57 PM

Rare Sighting – Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark

by admin January 31, 2013 in Misc, News

Seal kills and eats sharks - Never before seen photos of rare event. (c) Chris Fallows








HuffPo: Sharks are meant to be at the top of the food chain, but no one told this seal as he made five of them his dinner. The rare event was photographed for the fist time ever underwater by South African photographer Chris Fallows. Fallows, who owns a shark diving company, was diving with guests of the coast of Cape Point in South Africa when he witnessed and photographed the unique event.

The dive group had been looking for and soon found a group of blue sharks, all around 1.1 to 1.4 metres long, when “suddenly a large Cape fur seal arrived and proceeded to catch and kill its first, then second shark,” said Fallows.

The seal ate only the stomach and liver before moving onto its third and then its fourth shark. ”It was terrible to watch,” Fallows added.

It appeared to be all over, but one hour later another blue shark arrived, which attracted the seal once again who quickly caught and killed it.

Fallows said: “This was too much for us, we moved about three miles away. We certainly did not want to attract any more sharks to this seal.” He suspects that the seal only ate the stomach as it would have contained fish or squid, the seal’s natural diet, and the liver would have been a good source of energy.

He said: “I guess it just ate the parts that gave it the most use.”

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Edited by lancaster (16/02/13 07:02 PM)

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: lancaster]
      #225399 - 16/02/13 07:31 PM

Mmmm seems to me evolution is working. The seal got tired of being a food source

More serious, it is very good underwater photos and very interesting.

Thanks for sharing.

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: SAHUNT]
      #225406 - 17/02/13 01:39 AM

"it was terrible to watch" ?????

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: DoubleD]
      #225409 - 17/02/13 03:33 AM

Great photography
T he commentary was a bit skewed

Good for the seal.

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: Caprivi]
      #225412 - 17/02/13 03:57 AM

QUITE interesting. Thank You.

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: DarylS]
      #225417 - 17/02/13 04:54 AM


DD

I noticed that comment as well and thought it
was a bit strange considering how often the
other way round is glorified.


Also interesting to see they eat the stomach
and liver.

I have noticed other predators carnivores do the same
- foxes, dingos etc even to the extent of opening
a small hole and eating the heart / liver.

Must be easy to eat and full of nutrients.

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: 500Nitro]
      #225427 - 17/02/13 11:33 AM

Quote:

I have noticed other predators carnivores do the same
- foxes, dingos etc even to the extent of opening
a small hole and eating the heart / liver.
Must be easy to eat and full of nutrients.




And Wolves............

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Re: Cape Fur Seal Eats Blue Shark [Re: Caprivi]
      #225612 - 20/02/13 11:52 AM

Based on that third photograph and assuming the sharks are 1.1 to 1.4 metres long as stated then that is a decent sized seal.

I would move to another location as well and not because it was "terrible to watch".

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