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A small pod of pack Ice type B killer whales (Orcinus orca), just after making a Weddell seal kill in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica, Polar Regions

A small pod of pack Ice type B killer whales (Orcinus orca), just after making a Weddell seal kill in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica, Polar Regions

A small pod of pack Ice type B killer whales (Orcinus orca), just after making a Weddell seal kill in the Lemaire Channel, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Skull of an adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), on display at the Natural History Museum in Stanley, Falkland Islands, South America

Northern giant petrel (Macronectes halli) threat display while feeding on elephant seal pup carcass at Stromness, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Adult bull southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) issuing a bellowing challenge at Gold Harbour on South Georgia, Polar Regions

Adult beachmaster bull southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) challenging another male at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) bull holding adult female in the surf to mate with her, South Georgia, Polar Regions

An adult polar bear (Ursus maritimus) leaping from ice floe to ice floe in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Arctic, Europe

Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), hauled out on ice at Half Moon Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Huge adult male leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on the beach at Salisbury Plain in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi), at new haul out on Las Animas Island, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi), at new haul out on Las Animas Island, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

Adult male Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) head detail, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Adult leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) near Cuverville Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice at Brown Bluff near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice at Brown Bluff near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) killing and eating a juvenile Adelie penguin at Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) killing and eating a juvenile Adelie penguin at Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) killing and eating a juvenile Adelie penguin at Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice at Brown Bluff near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult male leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice in the Gullet near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult male leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice in the Gullet near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult male leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice in the Gullet near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) hauled out on ice floe in Neko Harbor near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) hauled out on ice near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) on ice floe with leopard seal at Brown Bluff, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Dead Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) attacked, killed and eaten by an Antarctic fur seal at Brown Bluff, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Dead Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) attacked and killed, but not eaten, by an Antarctic fur seal at Brown Bluff, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi), underwater on Las Animas Island, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

An adult brown skua (Catharacta antarctica) feeding on a dead elephant seal pup at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead elephant seal pup at Royal Harbor, South Georgia

Northern giant petrels (Macronectes halli) fighting over the scavenging rights to a dead fur seal pup at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia

Skuas (Catharacta antarctica) and female southern elephant seal with newborn pup near abandoned whaling station, Stromness Bay, South Georgia

Young adult bull southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) holding young pup's head underwater trying to kill it, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean

Young adult bull southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) holding young pup's head underwater trying to kill it, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean

Dead southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) pup being eaten by an Antarctic skua on South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean

A young Grey Seal pup (Halichoerus grypus) on the shore in winter, at Donna Nook Nature Reserve, on the North Sea coast of Lincolnshire, Great Britain.

Adult polar bear (Ursus maritimus) with a freshly killed ringed seal, PUnited States of America hispida, in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

A young polar bear (Ursus maritimus) scavenging a fresh bearded seal kill recently vacated by old male that killed the seal, Svalbard, Norway

A young polar bear (Ursus maritimus) scavenging a fresh bearded seal kill recently vacated by old male that killed the seal, Svalbard, Norway

A well-scarred old male polar bear (Ursus maritimus), on a fresh bearded seal kill near Monacobreen Glacier, Svalbard, Norway

Adult polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in Holmabukta on the northwest coast of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

A young polar bear (Ursus maritimus) scavenging a fresh bearded seal kill recently vacated by old male that killed the seal, Svalbard, Norway

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), disputing feeding rights on a fresh bearded seal kill near Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), feeding side-by-side on a fresh bearded seal kill on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), feeding side-by-side on a fresh bearded seal kill on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), feeding side-by-side on a fresh bearded seal kill on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), feeding side-by-side on a fresh bearded seal kill on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Young polar bear (Ursus maritimus), feeding on a fresh bearded seal kill near Monacobreen Glacier, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

Two young polar bears (Ursus maritimus), feeding side-by-side on a fresh bearded seal kill on Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway

A young polar bear (Ursus maritimus) scavenging a fresh bearded seal kill recently vacated by old male that killed the seal, Svalbard, Norway

A curious young polar bear (Ursus maritimus), swimming to the smell of a fresh bearded seal kill in SpitsBergen, Vestland, Norway

Mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and cub-of-the-year disputing then allowing a male bear to feed on a fin whale, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway

Young male polar bear (Ursus maritimus), shaking its fur, feeding on a fin whale carcass in Holmabukta in Svalbard, Norway

A mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus), with cub of the year feeding on a fin whale carcass in Holmabukta, Svalbard, Norway

An adult ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) on ringed seal kill on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Arctic, Europe

Huge adult male leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on the beach at Salisbury Plain in the Bay of Isles, South Georgia, Polar Regions

A small group of introduced reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) before eradication in Stromness Bay, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Adult male leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on ice in the Gullet near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), on lichen-covered rocks in Hercules Bay on South Georgia Island, Polar Regions

Beachmaster bull southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) attempting to mate at Peggotty Bluff, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) challenger bull head detail (notice shredded proboscis) at Gold Harbour, South Georgia, Polar Regions

Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), hauled out on ice at Half Moon Island, Antarctica, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking juvenile Adelie penguins at Brown Bluff near the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, Polar Regions

Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi), underwater on Las Animas Island, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

An adult ivory gull (Pagophila eburnea) on ringed seal kill on Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, Arctic, Europe

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) stalking juvenile Adelie penguins on ice at Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula.

Pack Ice Type B killer whales (Orcinus orca), finding a leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), on an ice floe in Antarctica, Polar Regions

Adult leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), hauled out on ice floe at Dorian Bay near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean, Polar Regions

Bull California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), on the beach in Puerto Refugio, Baja California, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

A Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on an iceberg in the Drygalski Fjord, Antarctic Peninsular,

A Leopard Seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) hauled out on an iceberg in the Drygalski Fjord, Antarctic Peninsular.

Adult female leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) killing and eating a juvenile Ad?lie penguin at Brown Bluff near the Antarctic Peninsula, Southern Ocean

Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) on sea ice off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to the coast of Hudson Bay in Fall waiting for the ice to freeze, and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly anxious as they wait for winter. While they wait, they engage in frequent wrestling matches to determine a mating hierarchy for the breeding season in March and April, and regularly check on the ice to see if it will carry them out to sea.

Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.

Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.

Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.

Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.

Attacking Californian Sea Lion, Zalophus californianus, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, La Paz

Californian Sea Lion and skin-diver, Zalophus californianus, Mexico, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, La Paz

King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) walking in front of a mating Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina), St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island

Two young Southern Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) playing in the water, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island