Comments on: Seals: Graceful underwater, adorably useless on land

By: Jennifer Hauf

Jennifer Hauf — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:36:00 +0000

LOL. They ARE blobs of jelly.

By: Andrea Habura

Andrea Habura — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:47:00 +0000

These are Antarctic seals. No polar bears.

By: francoisroux

francoisroux — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:01:00 +0000

Me was wondering the same thing actually…

By: Eliot Phan

Eliot Phan — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:32:00 +0000

not a arctic wildlife biologist, and haven’t yet watched the video – but wouldn’t polar bears be a natural predator of out-of-water seals?

By: tacochuck

tacochuck — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:15:00 +0000

Am I the only one who was really worried the baby seal would not find the hole in the ice to get air again?

By: miasm

miasm — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:15:00 +0000

Hmmph, I, uh.. wha! Gah!
That was beautiful.

By: giantasterisk

giantasterisk — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:01:00 +0000

After hearing the first “Yeah…” @ 2:00 I expected the narration to begin. “Yeah… oh, yeah…”

By: Uncle Geo

Uncle Geo — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:05:00 +0000

Adorable…or lazy?
http://boingboing.net/2012/05/17/lazy-harp-seal-has-no-job.html

By: Maggie Koerth-Baker

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:59:00 +0000

The video has no narration at all. But you are correct.

By: GawainLavers

GawainLavers — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:57:00 +0000

That ice boring comes at a steep cost to the Weddell’s seal: Their teeth are worn out relatively early in their lives. Is that covered in the video? Attenborough talks about it in Blue Planet.

By: jetfx

jetfx — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:55:00 +0000

Actually seals can move surprisingly fast on land. During the winter they come up in my yard, and you can sometimes find them wandering several miles inland, before they go back to sea.