 There's really not a lot of data right now on how even how many different leopard seals there are in New Zealand I mean, it's known, you know, I don't know. There's whatever number there is and down in that Antarctic, but it's not well established How many individuals there are up here and that's something that people would like to to understand because they want to understand How much of a resident species it's becoming? There's a well-known seal in Auckland. I think her name is Ofa and she's known for Biting boats and stuff like that and it can get be very fairly aggressive And so I think this they have several fecal samples from her which is good So it means we have different time points from the same animal and then they have several you know close to a hundred at least I think samples from from other animals and different places and So yeah, you know, there's several layers. I guess of questions in the project So one of it is looking at geographic structure and in microbiome. So to see whether there's difference in Seals, you know from specific areas of New Zealand to see whether there's any change over time So to look at temporal structure in microbiomes, which you might expect there to be if their diet changes during different times of the year and And then yeah, the really the last level is to see if we can really pin exactly what animals are Aware by just looking at the microbiome content if it's possible to using an extremely non-invasive method to establish Which individuals are there and maybe that would be useful for us. We can also maybe Gain some understanding of what they're eating by looking at their microbiome again This is something that's been established in humans that it's possible It it would be a great thing to try and establish in other mammalian species