Ranking 9 Deadly Pinnipeds Based On The Largest Prey They Target

No matter where you are in the world, if you're near the ocean you can probably find a pinniped if you really try to. The 34 different species of pinnipeds feed on different foods and are adapted to different habitats, but they've all found a way to survive in some of the world's most competitive ecosystems. Some of them are expert penguin hunters in one of the harshest oceans on the planet, and others have started to hunt their own kind and other members of their family. In today's video we will be trying to find the most formidable hunters in this distinctive group of mammals, and one of the ways to do this is to judge them based on the largest prey that they can take down. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Afro-Australian Fur Seal 2:25 Northern Elephant Seal 3:52 South American Sea Lion 5:15 New Zealand Sea Lion 6:40 Grey Seal 8:10 Southern Elephant Seal 9:44 Steller Sea Lion 10:45 Leopard Seal 13:03 Walrus Attributions: New Zealand sea lion images: Pseudopanax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zea... Public Domain Melissa Hutchison https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC 4.0 Christopher Stephens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souther... CC BY 4.0 Elephant seal images: Antoine Lamielle https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 Mike Baird https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 Laëtitia Kernaléguen (Deakin University) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY 2.0 simben https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Anne Dirkse https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 South American sea lion images: Tomás Tamagno https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY 4.0 Afro Australian fur seal images: Charles J. Sharp https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... CC BY-SA 4.0 Giant Pacific octopus images: Alexander Semenov https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/ CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Kirt L. Onthank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroc... CC BY-SA 3.0 South American fur seal images: Jorge Herreros de Lartundo https://www.inaturalist.org/observati... CC BY 4.0 Harbour seal images: Charles J. Sharp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbor_... CC BY-SA 4.0 Northern fur seal images: Adam Searcy https://www.flickr.com/photos/7756658... CC BY-SA 2.0 I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/cc-licenses/ Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoyed :) Sources: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil... http://www.elasmo-research.org/educat... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rs... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... https://www.vanaqua.org/explore/anima... https://circelaunches.co.za/2024/10/2... https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D... https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/200... https://poseidonexpeditions.com/about... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc... https://www.theguardian.com/environme...