Antarctic fur seals need ice-free ground in order to breed. Why are they disappearing? Leopard seals are the only seals that prey on other seal species although fur seals have rarely been on the menu ...

Killer whales rarely risk hunting leopard seals – Antarctica’s second top predator. But when reinforcement whales appear, this group of killer whales has a technique for capturing this aggressive ...

Melodies of land and sea To understand how leopard seal songs compare to other species, Chambers and her co-authors looked at entropy—the measurement of how predictable or random a vocal sequence is.

Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes.

In a study published today, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung ...

Tracey Rogers receives funding from ARC. Lucinda Chambers does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...