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Shark Attacks
Shark attacks on marine mammals may result in wounds and scarring. The following images are of
marine mammals that may have been attacked by sharks.
Below is pictured an apparent Pacific sleeper shark wound on a harbor seal (photo courtesy of
Alaska Department of Fish and Game).
Note the wounded sea lion (below). This may be from a failed Pacific sleeper shark attack
(photo courtesy of Norio Matsumoto) .
Below is a gray seal that was apparently attacked by a large Greenland shark near Sable Island
in the western Atlantic Ocean (photo courtesy of Zoe Lucas).
This piece of harbor seal (pictured below) came from the stomach of a Pacific sleeper shark caught
in the Gulf of Alaska (photo courtesy of NOAA).
Pictured below is tissue taken from the stomach of a Pacific sleeper shark. This tissue was later
identified as being partially digested harbor seal (photo courtesy of NOAA).
Below are two photos of a Steller's sea lion that washed up on an Alaskan beach in late 2003. This
animal may have been attacked by a shark, but that is yet to be determined (photos provided by
Aleutain/Pribilof Island Association).
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