Leopard seal sighting season - if that is indeed a thing - has begun. For the second time in eight days, Miss Forbes was at Oamaru Harbour yesterday to observe a 2m young adult male leopard seal resting beside Normanby wharf. A leopard seal yawns in Oamaru Harbour yesterday. And it was possible the leopard seal could become a regular visitor. A leopard seal was found shot dead in Northland at the end of July, which Leopardseals.org co-founder Dr Ingrid Visser called a ''cold-blooded execution of a defenceless animal''.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 07, 2018 16:33 UTC