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title: "Captured on film: a Cape Fur Seal preys upon on a Southern Giant Petrel in Namibia"
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# Captured on film: a Cape Fur Seal preys upon on a Southern Giant Petrel in Namibia

Simon Elwen ([Mammal Research Unit](http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=1703), University of Pretoria, South Africa.) and colleagues writing in the electronic journal *[Ornithological Observations](http://oo.adu.org.za)* report on a juvenile Southern Giant Petrel *Macronectes giganteus* (that was unable to fly due to an entanglement injury) being killed and partially eaten by an adult male Cape Fur Seal *Arctocephalus pusillus* in Namibian waters.

 Graphic pictures of before, during and after the attack!

 ![Southern_Giant_Petrel_flying_by_Warwick_Barnes](https://acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Petrels/S/Southern_Giant_Petrel_flying_by_Warwick_Barnes.jpg)  
Southern Giant Petrel.  Photograph by Warwick Barnes

 Reference:

 Elwen, S.H., Meintjies, J. & Roux, J.-P. 2012.  Death under the surface - Cape Fur Seal predating [sic] on a Southern Giant Petrel in Walvis Bay, Namibia.  [*Ornithological Observations* 3: 206-210](http://oo.adu.org.za/content.php?id=60).

 *[Ornithological Observations](http://oo.adu.org.za)* is an open-access electronic journal published by [BirdLife South Africa](http://www.birdlife.org.za/) and the [Animal Demography Unit](http://adu.org.za/), University of Cape Town.

 With thanks to Arnold van der Westhuizen for information.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 16 October 2012*