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Leopard seals Hydrurga leptonyx occur all year round at Iles Kerguelen. During mid-summer low numbers of adults of both sexes haul out which seems to be related to feeding. Usually solitary, groups may form on apparently preferred habitat in different years, and their local distribution on the Courbet Peninsula accords with that of the large colonies of macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus.