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Radio 4,1 min

The day a leopard seal leapt on me

The Life Scientific

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Marine ecologist Tracey Rogers remembers a too-close-for comfort moment with an Antarctic giant. This is the leopard seal, a ferocious species which Tracey has studied for two decades. She was sitting at the ice edge with her underwater acoustic equipment and some penguins for company when…..

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