{"id":1150,"date":"2010-01-10T17:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-01-01T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:53:00","slug":"all-dressed-up-with-no-where-to-go-leopard-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/all-dressed-up-with-no-where-to-go-leopard-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"All dressed up with no where to go &#8211; Leopard Seals.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lepiceflow.JPG\" alt=\"lepiceflow\" title=\"lepiceflow\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1168 colorbox-1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lepiceflow.JPG 448w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/lepiceflow-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><br \/>\nLep in Ryder Bay with Leonie behind (my playground) this was taken on the way back from a trip to Lagoon. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091204x1paulnicklen-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20091204x1paulnicklen\" title=\"20091204x1paulnicklen\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1148 colorbox-1150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091204x1paulnicklen-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/20091204x1paulnicklen.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a picture by Paul Nicklen of a Lep that was one of the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. <\/p>\n<p>Leps are the bain of our lives down here at Rothera. The Marine Team is effected sometimes on a daily basis by their prescence. At least 4 dives since I have been here that I was meant to do have been aborted when we were fully kitted up about to go in as a result of them. It really is frustrating when we have work to do. Someone described them as sinister and evil looking they really are. I don&#8217;t like snakes at all and leps look like reptiles and swim like reptiles as well. <\/p>\n<p>They are the second largest species of seal down here only the ellie (elephant seal) is larger. The leopard seal is the Antarctic&#8217;s equivalent of the polar bear and is the top predator on the continent. It has canine teeth that are 2.5 cm (1 in). Read more about them <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leopard_Seal\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lep in Ryder Bay with Leonie behind (my playground) this was taken on the way back from a trip to Lagoon. This is a picture by Paul Nicklen of a Lep that was one of the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards. Leps are the bain of our lives down here at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}