Curious Baby Elephant Seal
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Uploaded by fotomotofotograf on Apr 3, 2010
A baby elephant seal curious, brave, and too comfortable with and among people it turns out. Petermann island, Antarctica. Below is a longer description in response to viewers' comments.
Antarctica is remote wilderness (yes, even the Peninsula that gets the lion's share of small but increasing tourist numbers). There is no baiting, feeding, tracking or approaching the animals to facilitate interaction with tourists. All close interaction happens by chance and is initiated by the animal itself. The number of people landing at each site is closely monitored (no more than 100 allowed at once) and they leave no footprint (no flags, food, or any waste).
Petermann island is visited mainly for the scenery and large bird colonies (two penguin kinds, blue-eyed shags etc.). Not seals. Seals in large numbers are more easily observed on the beaches in the sub-antarctic islands. That is why I was thrilled by this spontaneous encounter with the baby seal on a not-so-large piece of rock.
Equipment used: Canon HF100 camera with a Raynox 6600 wide angle lens. [this rewording ought to satisfy viewers that no seals were annihilated using no halo weapons.]
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@1TheSarcastic "srry we dont." "THEN BE ADORABLED TO DEATH!!!"
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Surrender your snacks. Lest you be adorabled to death!
1 day ago 3
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Check out our cute new born California - Day in the Life of a baby Elephant Seal plus a big surprise. Search youtube "BIG SUR, SAN SIMEON #6 CALIFORNIA BEACHES Cute Baby"
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AWSOME!! SO FUCKING CUTE!!!!!
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Its sad to know that these beautiful creatures are mutating and dying because of the Fukishima disaster...
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that is just awesome
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i bet this seal has watched this video on youtube and was like, "omg!!! I'm on freakin tv!! Mom! Dad!!! I can actually gorw up to be something someday!!! can you guys swim me to hollywood????"
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How come no one tried to touch it? If I was there I'd have jumped on that little fucker like it was my pillow and hugged him like there was no tomorrow! Too fucking cute!
He's like "This is mine. This is mine. And this is mine. Go find your own luggage!"
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I love how by the end of the video, he's just like "This bag is mine now!"
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i love this video
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HAI guys...you got any foodz?
Poor thing sounded exhausted waddling around there
1TheSarcastic 2 weeks ago 44
Three orcas disliked this video.
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