"While excellent swimmers, they are even more surprising on land, where they have a higher velocity than the average human when moving over sand dunes."
I presume a juvenile seal in the video. Around here abandoned harp seal pups will bond with humans.
moose calves too.
In some species it can make for problems with the mother when she returns.
therefore important to be knowledgeable about the species before doing something like this.
Beautiful and made me smile. Reminded me of when I was a young girl and "befriended" a muskrat which lived in the creek on our property. I'd feed him/her lettuce and was thrilled when him/her crawled on my lap. In hind-sight, that was really, really stupid of me, but I was a child... maybe 9 years old. As much as I have to admit that I would really LOVE this experience, I can't imagine ever sitting in the midst of these animals. I guess I've become a weinie in my older age... But I would love it. Do Sea Lions eat lettuce???
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When I was maybe 10 I was sitting in a rowboat bottom fishing and I heard a sploosh behind me. I turned around to look into the face of what I now was an adult male sea lion half out of the water wanting to know if he could eat that. I admit it, I girly screamed and it sunk back into puget sound.
The only real moment that I think was as cool as this was one day we were out Salmon fishing and a gray whale rolled up along side the boat. It was VERY interested in what on earth we were doing. It rolled by and I got whale sneezed on a couple times as it swam under the bow.
BTW that elephant seal looks adult to me. The girls aren't as big as the boys by quite a margin. As cute as it was seals are disease bags, I wouldn't mess with them.
I just couldn't believe this took place in the USA...penguins in south Georgia? (Typical American ignorance, alas.)
As much as I enjoyed watching this, and have my fantasies about interacting with wildlife (especially dolphins and whales), I am mindful of how human interction can harm the wild ones.
I visited the Dolphin Research Center on Grassy Key, FL a few years ago, and was shocked to learn that there are jerks out there who will put hot dogs into the blow holes of dolphins, which of course, results in their death, as they then can't breathe. This kind of thing was the main reason they were against humans interacting at all with dolphins in the wild...for them to become accustomed to people and even positively disposed towards interacting with us can spell death for them if/when they encounter the idiot jerks in the world, who we all know abound.
And, Melissa, your comment about the germiness of seals...reminds me of another thing that I think alot...ignorance is bliss.
"BTW that elephant seal looks adult to me. The girls aren't as big as the boys by quite a margin."
southern ocean elephant seals female mature at 2000 lbs. males up to 11,000 lbs.!!!
so the one in this video not an adult.
I also learned that the nursing period is short and they start to fend for themselves fairly soon. Therefore it seems unlikely this juvenile (not a baby) was harmed by this encounter with a human, probably has no maternal relationship at this point as mother likely gone back into the ocean to feed...unless I learn something else new...
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