Wag

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Amanda Stansbury did the research while earning her Ph.D. at St Andrews under Vincent Janik, the director of the Scottish Oceans Institute.

"What's new about this research is we taught the seals how to imitate new sounds," Stansbury said. "We could have played them any song or any combination of notes."

Stansbury said she worked with three juvenile gray seals: Zola, Janice and Gandalf.

To teach the seals, Stansbury said she first recorded the seals making their natural sounds. Then she played those sounds back to the seals.

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/735070681/a-new-hope-seal-learns-to-sing-star-wars-theme

That is not the Seal you were looking for...
 

Platy

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That is not the Seal you were looking for...

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Gundam

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Totally heard Seal do some Ba-Dee-Das in my head while the thread loaded. :(
 

itwasTuesday

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BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBYYY

Oh....
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"What's new about this research is we taught the seals how to imitate new sounds," Stansbury said. "We could have played them any song or any combination of notes."

So the possibilities are endless!
 

Nepenthe

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I love Seal but so routinely forget he exists that I imagined this thread in its exact form and could not be any happier. The honking is so cute!
 

Doggg

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I too was hoping to hear Seal the singer, not Seal the seal.
 

Blue Ninja

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That's cool and all, but now I want Seal to sing the Star Wars theme like the opening to Kiss From a Rose.
 

papermoon

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Feel sorry for all the charmless souls disappointed that there are actual pinniped seals honking twinkle twinkle little star and the stars wars theme instead of boring "he already has a vevo" human Seal. Come on now. This is so much awesome.

I opened this expecting to find human Seal, expected to be disappointed. Instead, these adorable tone-deaf and off-key dudes and dudettes are singing their hearts out for some fish. This bait my day.
 

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Hahahahaha. Amazing. I also like the way that they always fuck off at the end of the song like "I'm done, hooman. What do you think I am, some kind of trained seal? oh."