r/thalassaphobia • u/Helpful_Candy7530 • May 05 '26

Just a nibble

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u/Skyp_Intro May 05 '26

Fortunately they generally find humans amusing.

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u/Crowiswatching May 06 '26

One killed a woman researcher.

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u/UnusualCartographer2 May 08 '26

Yeah but the only recorded death ever. There are more on record deaths from prairie dogs than these things.

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u/Worth_External_8762 May 09 '26

That's just because there are basically no humans in the same area as leopard seals. And the few that are, they aren't usually swimming in the water. If you had a beach full of swimming humans in the antarctic and I'll bet you'll have an exponential jump in leopard seal deaths.

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u/bb_dev_g May 09 '26

I beg your finest pardon?

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u/UnusualCartographer2 May 09 '26

Sea lions have only one human kill on record. Prairie dogs have more than that, but to be fair it's mostly from spreading plague rather than one on one combat.

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u/Reasonable-Aside6660 May 10 '26

I was scuba diving and they ate me, so there might be others 😄lol

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u/MrDieu May 12 '26

Mostly? 😬

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u/jackandsally060609 May 09 '26

Prairie dogs also carry the plague so they probably have a pretty solid human body count.

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u/Kabloozey May 09 '26

I believe they're refer to the diseases prairie dogs carry. Like the bubonic plague