Fur Seal Kills, Eats Five Blue Sharks

[RickI]

This may have been posted on here previously but doing a quick search I was unable to find it. May have added some more content at the link below anyway.

"A fur seal off South Africa dines on one of five blue sharks ranging from 1 to 1.4 m in length. Tearing their throats out and then eating stomach contents and liver for highest caloric intake. Smart seal. The images were taken by Chris and Monique Fallows of Shark Cage Diving Cape Town | Great White Shark Diving | South Africa who specialize in conducting white shark and sardine run dives among numerous other marine life specialty excursions in South Africa.

MSN.com


They had taken eight divers out to experience the sardine run including the obligatory ball of bait being ravaged from above and below by predators of all stripes, see above. Much to their surprise even after conducting 2000 of such dives, one of the normal shark prey, a fur seal started to take out blue sharks feeding on the bait.

Blue sharks ganging up and having their way with some down on their luck seamen in this engraving from 1843. Where is a fur seal when you need one?
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[AfterDark]

Those are great pics! Rare moments captured forever too cool for school! Brave seal when one considers that a GW would happilly eat both of them.

 

[Tigerman]

Thats some fantastic pictures!

 

[drbill]

Great stuff! Here off Catalina their relatives the California sea lion will eat leopard sharks and others like corn-on-the-cob

 

[drrich2]

Impressive. Catching a moving fish with your mouth aside, blue sharks are quite fast from what I've read in the past.

I wonder how common this predation is. And what the seal preys on other shark species.

Richard.

 

[Oldbear]

Very cool pictures...thanks for sharing them.