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| 8 | 86 | The sea View more quotes about sleen">sleen will attack a human in the water, which it will see as food, but it is unlikely to attack one on the ice. |
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| 8 | 83 | On the other hand, some, seen first beneath the surface, a detectable, sinuous, twisting, moving body, a foot or two below, would suddenly emerge, beside the ship, snouts raised above the surface, with an explosive exhalation of breath, and then a drawing inward of air, these come to open water about the ship, to breathe. |
| 8 | 84 | It was they who approached. |
| 8 | 85 | It was eerie to look into the large, round, dark eyes of a sea sleen, peering at one from the icy water. |
| 8 | 86 | The sea sleen will attack a human in the water, which it will see as food, but it is unlikely to attack one on the ice. |
| 8 | 87 | Its usual prey is parsit fish, or grunt. |
| 8 | 88 | In the case of the northern shark it is both prey and predator. |
| 8 | 89 | Some sea sleen hunt in packs, and these will attack other sea mammals, even large sea mammals, such as whales, which they will attack in swarms, in a churning, bloody frenzy. |