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Episode Eight– (Emily Sperou) Chasing an Apex Predator: Leopard Seals and Antarctic Survival
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Dr. Emily Sperou is an ecobiologist and researcher who spent her doctoral studies and the first years of her postdoctoral career studying one of the world’s most elusive apex predators: the leopard seal. She and her colleagues take arduous boat trips through Antarctica, searching for rare animals and studying their diets, reproduction, and their survival amid climate change, melting polar ice,…