Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leopard seal (Antarctic Sound, Tabarin Peninsula)

Leopard seal (Antarctic Sound, Tabarin Peninsula)

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Reason

High quality, high EV

Original

A Leopard seal lying on sea ice in the Antarctic Sound, near Brown Bluff on Antarctica's Tabarin Peninsula. The first image of the set captures the entire seal, while the second focuses on a well-timed yawn. The penultimate Antarctic predator, second only to the Killer whale.

Articles in which these images appear

Leopard seal, List of mammals of Antarctica

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals

Creator

Godot13

Leopard seal

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  Leopard seal on sea ice.

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  Close-up of a Leopard seal yawn displaying teeth. The combination of canine teeth and molars allow it to hunt other animals or sieve small organisms from the water.

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 03:25, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Excellent detail; big improvement over previous pic in infobox at Leopard seal. Sca (talk) 14:24, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
• Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:17, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
• Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:13, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 12:24, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
• Support. While the background of the second image appears to be a bit out of focus, I'm assuming this was done to emphasize the animal's teeth. Either way, wonderful pictures both. Colonel Wilhelm Klink (^Complaints|_Mistakes) 01:21, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:Antarctic Sound-2016-Brown Bluff–Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) 04.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:36, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Promoted File:Antarctic Sound-2016-Brown Bluff–Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) 05.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:36, 10 June 2016 (UTC)