“They have […] a split personality. One moment they’re your best mate, and next they are trying to drag you down to the bottom of the sea to drown you. […] It’s just astonishing.”

—  Lewis Pugh

p 65, describing leopard seals off Antarctica
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)

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