Following on from Lindsay's post of yesterday:
Here's the stuff: my comment would be that the one particular seal shown in the close-up seems to have the type of eye that the witness described (the iris is greenish here, but perhaps more of a hazel colouring), the back end of the head seems to have that squared-off look and in the drawing there seems to be a distinction of the part immediately below the head, corresponding to the seal's actual neck, and then the lower, curved part of the neck, which would correspond to the seal's body. I don't think that the witness would have had a good v
iew of the lower part or how high it would have been emerged from the water. The seal does press its flippers very tightly to the sides on occasion, and the seal with the open mouth shows this.
Leopard seals are very dangerous and they regularly attack and kill penguins the size of a large child: there are cases on record of them killing human beings.
Not that I am saying that this particular beast was necessarily a leopard seal exactly, it could have been a different but similar species. But the resemblance is striking.
Here's the stuff: my comment would be that the one particular seal shown in the close-up seems to have the type of eye that the witness described (the iris is greenish here, but perhaps more of a hazel colouring), the back end of the head seems to have that squared-off look and in the drawing there seems to be a distinction of the part immediately below the head, corresponding to the seal's actual neck, and then the lower, curved part of the neck, which would correspond to the seal's body. I don't think that the witness would have had a good v
iew of the lower part or how high it would have been emerged from the water. The seal does press its flippers very tightly to the sides on occasion, and the seal with the open mouth shows this.
Leopard seals are very dangerous and they regularly attack and kill penguins the size of a large child: there are cases on record of them killing human beings.
Not that I am saying that this particular beast was necessarily a leopard seal exactly, it could have been a different but similar species. But the resemblance is striking.
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