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Don Joy checks the wound on a deer after it was killed by his friend Robert Vezina on the first day of deer hunting season.

Story Summary: While hunting has been a part of the American tradition back to the country's founding, over time it's popularity has fallen dramatically. Much of it has to do with the disconnect people have with the "harvesting" of their meat. Many…

A leopard seal lies on a piece of drifting glacier ice, satiated from a feast of penguins earlier in the morning. After hundreds of encounters with leopard seals my colleague, Goran Ehlme, and I concluded that leopard seals are like any other top…

Regardless of how of the penguin is consumed, the remainder sinks to the sea floor where a rich ecosystem such as these sea stars wait to consume the remainder of the penguin. I visited this samer carcass 24 hours later and only bones remained.

Leopard seals use their bicusp molars to cut flesh as this seal is doing to a gentoo penguin. These molars also act as sieves when eating krill.

The large female seal was getting frustrated with my inability to eat one of her many offerings. Here, she putting the penguin on top of my camera and in many circumstances, on top of my head. Over several days, she grew more and more aggitated when…

Leopard seals use centrifical force by whipping the penguin from side to side to rip bite sized pieces of flesh off. In this case the big female is trying to remove the head. Only after capturing the moment at 1/2000th of a second was I able to see…

This large female who befriended me contstantly released penguins in front of me, in an effort to teach me how to hunt. She spent days trying to feed me penguins. Only the -1c (28F) water forced me to end the encounters. It was the greatest wildlife…

Once one penguin chick decides to head to sea for the first time, many follow. A leopard seal usually only takes one penguin at a time so the rest can make it past the gauntlet. Once the penguins are at sea, they will remain for many months…

A juvenile gentoo penguins peaks under the water before going to sea for the first time. They are very aware that leopard seals are lurking close by. Penguins will cross an entire Island on foot if they see or think a leopard seal is waiting for…