The White Seal - pt 2

[xxcool2tintxx]

Anyone know the voice for Kotek? I get a feeling it's Fiver in Watership Down

[rachelandmarie1]

did any1 notice the heads of easter island at 4:05

[annonymouspervyjew]

BASKING SHARKS DONT EAT MEAT -.-

[IdiotsRUsLtd]

@annonymouspervyjew And Hammerheads don't eat seals.

But remember, this WAS the 70's heheheh...

[basswagon]

STOP IT! STOP! STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sakonaga1]

I thought that the Seals most terrifying enemy was "man" as per the preceding clip. Sharks are the villains now? Hey, at least they kill only to eat.

[syminka]

Are sharks even in the part of the ocean? I thought killer whales were their enemy 0___0 Polar Bears and killer whales...I'm lost

[homicidalpsychokat]

@syminka Sharks are a MAJOR predator of seals! They are attacked by sharks in many areas including San Francisco, South Africa, and Canada. Just type in "shark attacks seal" here on Youtube to find *tons* of videos.

[Ivanatis]

rip Roddy McDowall

[MissZebraWolf]

Awwwh this is sad.

[hiawathasfate]

Aw, man! Getting hurt by a basking shark would be like getting hit by an ice cream truck... totally humiliating. Basking sharks typically swim at speeds humans walk at! xD

[LchanOtakudom]

7:14 Kotic - 1, Poachers - 0

PWNED!

[youngbrolly6]

7:14 BATTLECAT LOL

[BebeLush2]

Beautiful story and completely relevant today. Still slaughtering those magnificent animals.

[corrupt200]

4:12 Golden Gate Bridge

[BlueNeko1]

Sad when the poachers come. Too sad actually.

[iknoweverything314]

in the real story they actually did kill seals :(

[HaloofCurls]

That's not a seal, that's a sea lion

[neofeliss]

"Yes, that's nice, now run along. I have to take a nap for two weeks." XDD

LOL!!

[snowcloud8]

actually the basking shark only eats plankton. it's a filter feeder, not a seal eater.

[limbdarkening]

@snowcloud8 Yeah I thought only Killer Whales eat seals and polar bears.

[h4xwiffme]

@Flameclaw123

Your point is valid, and you even went through the trouble of informing me with some statistics, how wonderful.~ Be that as it may, I still don't like the idea of mammal hunting, though out happens daily, I know, I just don't like it is all I intended to point out. :U

[limbdarkening]

@h4xwiffme Are you going to be speciesist and say mammals are superior to other animals? Wrong.

[h4xwiffme]

Just so everything is clear， I hate men。 ：【

[Flameclaw123]

@h4xwiffme Oh great, humans are portrayed as seal-clubbers. Which I'm fairly certain is illegal. Real hunters don't club seals. (I'm not saying people don't, I'm just saying that many don't, and don't assume that every hunter does.) Quote from Wiki from 2002 study: "the large majority of seals taken during this hunt (at best, 98% in work reported here) are killed in an acceptably humane manner."

[keen14you]

It makes me cry to think that wild animals see us so distrustfully, and have good reason to.

[dianalighthope]

Lol! This is where I learned the difference between horizontal and vertical!

[mnkyboi]

Novastoshnah is the north east point on Saint Paul island in Alaska. Its like in the middle of the Bering Sea

[DragonofthePen]

lolwat hammerhead in the arctic.

[AGlowIntheDarkPanda]

Warranty void if seal is broken :3

[Oniqueen]

Wait a minute...They where in Nova Scotia, which is in the Atlantic ocean. The Males went to Alaska and he and his mom went South past they went San Fransisco to the Pacific Ocean? Talk about Geography Fail!

[Roundhere44]

@Oniqueen Hahahahaha! I was trying to figure out the same thing! lmao!

[ElJiggly1]

@Oniqueen they werent at nova scotia, its a weird place called novastoshnah, the fuck knows where that is, but it is on the book

[corrupt200]

@Oniqueen first of all they are a Novastoshnah near alaska; second, they went to San Francisco to see the GoldenGate Bridge and to hang out with the sea lions at Pier 39

[tohitsumohinafan]

Wait a minute! Now we all know great white sharks eat seals, but basking sharks don't eat seals, and I don't think hammerhead sharks do either.

Boy, they didn't do much research on animals when they made this movie, did they?

[LchanOtakudom]

@tohitsumohinafan When Rudyard Kipling wrote the original story that this movie was based on, I believe the Basking Shark was considered one of those huge man-eating beasts of the ocean, or was recently discovered and not yet examined very closely by science. Kipling must have heard or read about it, so he thought "What an awesome beastie to pit against Kotic!". Don't quote me on this though, it is just what I *THINK* may be the reason :)

[BlitzChaos09]

Basking sharks don't have jaws.

[KiraiToBaka]

I wish I could nap for two weeks. Stupid whales.

[jocstarbunny]

ok I'm confused... The narrator said this started on St.Paul Island, Nova Scotia but now this story moved from the east coast to the west coast...?!? ehhhhh????????? Does he mean St. Paul Island, Alaska?

[kirbykrisis18]

when did a seal started roaring like a lion?! O_o

[Phewy]

jaws of a basking shark?? LOL

[9wires]

'idealistic young fool!' love the dad

[goodstuffbunny]

to tell you the truth, a whale is a large dolphin, and a dolphin is a small whale.

[ChibiKohaku]

YOU CANT LIVE WITHOUT SKIN!

[kgurlybrat]

the part with the humans made me scared to go to the bathroom at night when i was little Dx other than that this movie is really cute

[goodstuffbunny]

its sad to see that the seal can not jump us high as the dolphin can, the seal in fact jumps at the level a human can reach.

[goodstuffbunny]

why is it always the sperm whale that pops up in cartoons about seals?

[helenHeller01]

Kotik is also the Russian name for seal :)

[goodstuffbunny]

you know that now a days statues of Jesus, mother Mary, and other saints are being submerged in the ocean. most likely hunters and fishermen wouldn't dare take the life of an innocent sea animal if the place they are in are now blessed.

[goodstuffbunny]

i once had a dream that a bunch of seal were playing around in my living room. ah it was a relaxing dream=)

[mikejeff71]

The theme song at the beginning and end of this movie is depresssing, and more fit for funerals. Otherwise, the storyline of the movie makes sense.

[goodstuffbunny]

um whats leucism?

[goodstuffbunny]

1:35, purple walruses!

[MeIsArtTickYouLet]

surprising that no one has made a comment about "kotex" being white instead of reddish-brown

[Treemeadow]

Kotick.

[Treemeadow]

Period jokes are so middle school.

[goodstuffbunny]

is fish the only meal that seals like to eat? cause deep down i feel that they'll eat anything else!

[goodstuffbunny]

i wonder how his voice was able to echo=0?

[Animatrixette16]

the shark wears mascara!!! XD this is an awsm movie cant beleive ive never heard of this till now

[EireGoon]

This is actually quite scary!

Cute seals btw!

[xXRoconzaXx]

Wait aren't Orca (aka Kill whales) a seal eater?

So by the Seal's logic he would swim up to a killer whale thinking it's a funny looking Dolphin and...

:|

[EireGoon]

He gets warned about them in the original story- they seem to have cut them from this version though.

[PopInPicsPresents]

i could see that...lol

[goodstuffbunny]

now that is one pissed off seal!

[goodstuffbunny]

what in the hell are those men doing?!!!

[Pyroblazer]

"It's the only thing uglier than a walrus!"

"Flattery will get you nowhere"

[CelticDragon0]

@Pyroblazer LOL!

[shenloken2]

I think I just realized something.

'The White Seal' was part of the 'Jungle Books'; series which was released in 1894 by Rudyard Kipling.

Now these days we all know Basking Sharks do not eat seals; but back then, I don't think they were fully aware of it. Much of the ocean underneath was left unstudied by man at that time because they had no effective way to study animals like Basking sharks up close. They just assumed that "If it has a big mouth, it eats mammals like seals."

[MachineGun28]

Jesus, how can people say this is racist?! How about this as an idea, seals are normally dark in colour so a light coloured seal would be different otherwise it would be called 'the seal'.

[bubbleblue100]

"what the hell are those humans doing?" XD

[bubbleblue100]

I dont really like this move..... -_-

[AnimalAnimeFan]

ROFL ghost seal XD

[shenloken2]

The Basking Shark?

Don't they just eat plankton?

[Shavarnarak]

I think given the polar bear they might have meant the SLEEPER Shark.

That one DOES eat meat. And it lives around those seas. And it looks kind of odd like the basking shark does.

But yeah... Basking Sharks are harmless yes, unless you're krill, then they are very dangerous.

[shenloken2]

Is the sleepr shark also referred to as 'The Greenland Shark?" Those kinds do live in the area where Polar Bears and seals are.

But I'm just saying what I hear here; and they clearly said Basking Shark. And i'm just happy I am not krill.

[spartan117pr]

basking sharks only eat plankton like a whale lol but whatever

[MKAS33]

You're right. Basking sharks only eat plankton. The narrator is an idiot.

[CyndellWarrior]

the narrator just tells the story, it's the writer that's the idiot

[MKAS33]

Oh. Still...

[Pyroblazer]

Back when this was made there was hardly any info on Basking Sharks.

[Treemeadow]

Rudyard Kipling?

You're calling Rudyard Kipling an idiot?

[CyndellWarrior]

not Kipling, Kipling did his research when he wrote his original tale i was referring to the Script writer for this Story

[crcoghill]

yay, like when he said seal mortal enemy was the shark, thats not true, it's the orca or killer whale.

[glitteryYtiger]

And hammerheads have mouths too small to eat a seal, and they don't really go to the surface.

[darlingzooloo]

omg the creepy hunters! They STILL give me nightmares. @_@

But I loved the whale though..."Now run along I need to take a nap for two weeks." lol

[susumu07]

yikes a whale eye is NOT that big!

[totallyawesomesteph]

I would imagine having a tail stuck in your eye might hurt quitea bit.

[sarahbertty]

I find it funny that the animals you see "clapping" in shows are most always sea lions and not seals.  The two species seem to be thrown together.

[LilMidna13]

dont kill me....i just thought...could a dolphin have learned to "clap" from seals and humans saw this and now teach them that trick?! O_O u never know....

[ayea28]

Basking sharks eating seals? They should have researched the animals before they animated it.....oh well still good

[yiffman17]

dumb people try kill seal!

[VipertoothProducs]

9:32 Basking shark?! Basking sharks can't eat anything bigger than plankton...

get it right screen writers. LOL

[CobraCoyote]

Rudyard Kipling did not now this when he wrote the story.

[wolfgirl44]

Good god, the part where the humans come scared me to pieces when I was 5, and it still freaks me out ot this day.

[TheTOBster21]

@wolfgirl44 same here man!

[limbdarkening]

@wolfgirl44 I think it's bizarre when we depict our own species to be evil, ugly, and horrible. It may be true but it's weird just the same.

[wolfgirl44]

@limbdarkening I think it's a side-effect of intelligence. Other animals can't see the cause-and-effect of their actions as well as we can, and it freaks us out.

[pwnz1lla69]

I thought that the seals worse enemy was the orca.

[JoraRain]

i'm not certain but maybe orcas arn't in that area so it goes to another species that is in that area.

[Horseinthefog]

I think with Sea World being at peak popularity at the time they couldn't paint "Shamu" as a bloodthirsty killer.

[Rosiercentral]

The orca is their worst NATURAL enemy, the grave unnatural threat that is Man by far outweighs what the orca can do.

[TheDixieDolphin]

Uh, yeah they do. Killer whales (aka, Orcinus orca), are well known for eating seals and sea lions.

[toguansinahi]

well sorry. whales aren't my specialty. felines are.

[MKAS33]

You're right. Mammals are included in their diet.

[EatColorBlue]

does this have a part three?

[patronsaintofpoison]

Yes

[angeligabrielle]

The art looks like it was done by the same people who drew the Grinch cartoon....

[maebia2001]

No. The arts look like it was done by the same person who drew Tom & Jerry.

[angel31192]

Its chuck jones who did this

[meepnessd]

you both are right. chuck jones did dr.suess cartoons like grinch and horton. he also did tom & jerry

[Pyroblazer]

He did both The grinch AND Tom and Jerry XD

[BlueFoxPaws]

Win. c:

[BonzaiBunghole]

at 4:05 he swims past easter island...

then at 4:14 he swims past San Fran.

kinda weird for being in nova scotia

[AnnainCA]

It's actually Novastoshnah, not Nova Scotia.

The first line from the Kipling story:

"All these things happened several years ago at a place called Novastoshnah, or North East Point, on the Island of St. Paul, away and away in the Bering Sea."

[SchwhiteSeal]

For some reason I feel some racial undertones here.... especially when Seacatch denies Kotick as his son because he's too light...... .then in the end Kotick overcomes and leads all the "less than smart" looking seals who happened to be brown to a better place.....hmmm

[drekafrea]

Most old cartoons were relating to racism, I'm sure what you're observing is no mistake.

[TheBurningDonut]

I thought the story was based on a story by Rudyard Kipling

[Rudziewicz]

This story is by Kipling. It appears in the Jungle Book.

[TheBurningDonut]

So how dose it have racial undertones?

[Rudziewicz]

Your reply was out of order, I was just clarifying that it was indeed from the Jungle Book. I haven't read enough literary criticism on Kipling to read any deeper on this particular story.

[SamCohenoftheJews2]

No, see seals are only supposed to be white when they're babies and as the get older there fur changes color. Yet Kotick was always white.

[XxAmayaSanxX]

You are thinking of arctic seals.

not all seals are born white then change. This one had a genetic reason for beign white, he's prolly an albino.

Albinos do not always have pink eyes, they can be gray and blue too

[SamCohenoftheJews2]

Ah, well either way, it's not racist.

[Topdoggie7]

So do Leucism animals.

[xXRoconzaXx]

Albino most likey

[Topdoggie7]

No, Leucism.

[corrupt200]

why does Seacatch hate Kotick so much?

[Gunganfan]

Where are you sensing that? Male seals and sea lions just don't take much part in raising their kids.

[JEJ4444]

This is a little weird, but interesting.

[chonesjr]

"Oh, right! Oh, very--very, VERY right indeed!"

To which I say...heke? Since when did he start speaking so proper-like?

[coralthesquirrel]

LOL basking sharks are harmless!

[Remburge]

haha the white seal talked so proper

[JillRoxyG]

Shark? Oh, brother... In the story, it was the Orca. How'd that get lost in the adaptation?

[Whitelock84]

Production probably thought the shark would be scarier and more easily identified by audiences. 

"Why do they always have to meddle?!?"

[Luciferific]

nice touch how man leaves an oil trail wherever they go in this movie, even if they're in a rowboat

[westphalianprinz]

Ironically, the Basking Shark never attacks seals. It has no teeth.

Also, this is actually a story about Zionism. The killing of the young seals is supposed represent the persecution of the Jews in Europe. The Island where man cannot come is the place where the Jews can escape persecution.

[TheFett007]

Or maybe it was just a story about a white seal.

[westphalianprinz]

No, Kipling's stories were always political. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was about the Indians in India who supported the British colonizers. The Mongoose protects the British family from other Indians (the cobras) who want to throw them out of India. Kipling was a major proponet of the British Empire from what we would now call a Liberal or Enlightened Imperialist perspective. That's what drove public opinion in favor of the last wave of European colonialism.

[idioticlisa]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeep..... I can see why this wasn't shown to me when I was little.... o_O Which is weird because I was exposed to Watership Down :P Harmless bunny movie? 9_9 Anyway.... to the next part! :D