Synopsis
Glaciers crumbling more quickly, due to climate change, give the advantage to leopard seals hunting penguins.
- Programme: Seven Worlds, One Planet
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2021
- Biology | Ecology | Ecosystems, extinction and gene pools | Predator and prey populations
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