Although seals are known to clap their flippers in captivity, a gray seal has been filmed doing it in the wild for the very first time, researchers say.
Ben Burville, a marine biologist at Newcastle University in the UK, filmed a seal clapping its flippers together underwater near the Farne Islands, a group of islands off the northeast coast of England. The seal's clapping produced a distinctive"crack" sound.Seals have been taught to sing the 'Star Wars' theme tuneBurville spent 17 years attempting to capture the behavior on film before finally succeeding in October 2017.
Burville said in a statement that diving with seals was his passion and that he believes he has spent"more time underwater with grey seals than anyone in the world." Stranded seals swarm a small Canadian town, unable to steer their way back to seaHe added that this previously unseen behavior made him think about"how much there still is to learn" about the species.
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