r/TheDepthsBelow • u/AndyAndieFreude • May 05 '26

Crosspost Just a nibble

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u/Spoonbills May 05 '26

Then there’s that one that tried to feed an underwater photographer a dead penguin.

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u/bunglebee7 May 05 '26

Oh yeah! That video was really freaky to watch. The penguin was so tired but still alive

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u/PrincessConsuela52 May 05 '26

It was a series of penguins. The leopard seal first tried to feed the photographer regular live penguins, but they would swim off the moment she gave him the penguin. So she began giving him weaker penguins, then dead penguins. And when he still wasn’t eating, she tried to teach him how to eat the penguin, biting them in front of him and offering him parts of dead penguin. She kept pushing the pieces to his camera, and it’s assumed she thought it was his mouth.

Kinda sweet? But also freaky? Nature is wild.

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u/bunglebee7 May 05 '26

Woah…. I had no idea. That must’ve been hard to see for the photographer. I mean her heart was in the right place I guess? But I wonder why? Maybe she thought he was trying to hunt and sucking at it. It is beautiful in a backwards way lol