Hülged ahju! In an article on Delfi today entitled Estonia's seals are disloyal to their country it has been revealed that the nation's favourite frollicking sea creatures show absolutely no fidelity to their fatherland.Studies of six tagged grey seals sighted in Estonian waters off the coast of Saaremaa have shown that the great distances the animals can cover in a day means they're anyone's. Researchers have tracked their movements from Latvia to Finland and back again, taking in the Åland Islands and the Swedish outpost of Gotland on the way.
“The fact that they put themselves about a bit we've known for a long time, but not where exactly and how regularly,” explained researcher Ivar Jüssi, confirming that the brazen creatures recognise no borders. “There's no such thing as 'our' seals or Finnish seals or Swedish seals. There's just the Baltic Sea and the seals that live in it. It could even be the case that the ones we managed to stick receivers on were in our waters by pure chance.”
That the seals show no particular allegiance to Estonia is obvious to researchers from the fact that five of the six they are studying have rarely been seen again hereabouts since they were tagged. Just one, an elderly female, remains true to the country - most likely, the scientists say, because she has formed something of an attachment to her breeding grounds, which is characteristic of all grey seals. Random as the choice is.
3 comments:
An exemplary case of "OMGWTFLOL".
Oh, someone is still reading this blog? I thought it had been abandoned ;-)
Still it is positive, that they don't cheat on us with.. you know who
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