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Leopard Seal - Atlantis Marine Park, Yanchep WA 1987

Leopard Seal at (now long closed) Atlantic Marine Park in the Sun City development, Yanchep near Perth. This was a rescued animal. Anyone know what happened to it?? Would guess it died here but don't know for sure. This was the establishment that tried to re-introduce seven performing dolphins (some wild caught, some captive born) with limited success.

Leopard Seal - Atlantis Marine Park, Yanchep WA 1987
Newzooboy, 22 Jan 2008
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    • Newzooboy
      Leopard Seal at (now long closed) Atlantic Marine Park in the Sun City development, Yanchep near Perth.

      This was a rescued animal. Anyone know what happened to it?? Would guess it died here but don't know for sure.

      This was the establishment that tried to re-introduce seven performing dolphins (some wild caught, some captive born) with limited success.
      22 Jan 2008
    • James27
      Does highly litd success mean it worked or didn't?
      23 Jan 2008
    • Newzooboy
      It didn't!
      23 Jan 2008
    • CZJimmy
      Wow, those kids on the wall must look like snacks for a leopard seal ;)
      23 Jan 2008
    • serpens
      Most of the animals went to other theme parks like seaworld on the gold coast, but the seven dolphins that they tryed to release ended up at A.Q.W.A. or underwater world, where they lived quite happily often visited by other dolphins in the marina, until about 2000 when they were all poisoned deliberately by an unknown person. this affected the trainers and all the staff there immensely.
      12 Nov 2008
    • FBBird
      Leopard Seal

      Not an animal many people would want to get too close to...
      28 Jan 2011
    • Jabiru96
      The keepers at Taronga use free contact with their Leopard Seals and used to swim with the now deceased Leopard Seal Brooke
      28 Jan 2011
    • Newzooboy
      1 Jun 2011
    • Chlidonias
      with the skewed perspective it looks just like those kids on the far right are actually sitting right above the pool...just at leopard seal launch height :D

      (of course there's a "walkway" between the pool edge and the wall, but I can just imagine the seal licking his lips)
      7 Feb 2012
    • Gryphon
      They used to swim with other leopard seals too, and get stalked underwater.
      2 Aug 2012
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