Weddel sur un glacon a coté de Vaihéré/ Weddell on an ice cube close to Vaihere |
Alors les léopards on les a pas vus et quelque part c'est tant mieux! C'est que ca peut vous bouffer les flotteurs des annexes ces betes-là! J'ai croisé des gens à qui c'est arrivé, ils ont pas trop rigolé. On a vu leurs traces par contre: cadavre de manchot vidé flottant sur la mer...
Weddell |
Weddell |
Ah oui, y a aussi les éléphants de mer. C'est que c'est gros et fainéant ces trucs-là, ca pèse entre 500kg et 3 tonnes pour les plus gros males (qu'on a pas vus). Et comme les phoques, ca bouge pas trop quand c'est sur terre. Fait intéressant, ca vit en harem, comme les otaries d'ailleurs!
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We haven't seen any sea leopards, and it's not that bad really: apparently they sometimes attack small boats and bite in the inflated floats... i met a guy who was on a cruise ship and his small boat got attacked... one of the floats got pinched, fortunately it wasn't too big of a deal, another small boat came quickly for recue! We saw traces of the sea leopards though: floating empty corpses of penguins...
Elephante de mer/ Sea elephant (friendly female) |
Otarie/ Mighty fur seal |
Fur seal on the contrary are rather active: they keep fighting (or flirting) all the time. They roar (sounds like it at least) as soon as one comes to close to them. One ran after me as i was taking a photo of her, i can tell you i ran away pretty fast! Wasn't sure how agressive she would be with me... ;-)
Oh yeah, and there are sea elephants too by the way! These guys like the seals are pretty lazy, spending their day chilling. They weigh between 500kg for the females and 3 tons for the older males (we didn't see any). Interesting fact: they live in harems... like the fur seals by the way!
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