A huge seal from Australia became a star of social networks

He scatters road cones, scares his appearance of random passers -by and does not allow people to come to work in time

The seal Nile entered the shore of the Australian Island of Tasmania in July 2022 and very quickly became a local star. The viral videos are shot with it, and more than half a million people are signed on social networks. Once he even caused a person’s delay to work - he simply fell asleep next to a car of one of the local residents, blocking her exit. Ecologists, however, worry about the fate of the beast living next to people. "Cold" tells what Nile is famous for and what can threaten him

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The best excuse so as not to go to work

At the end of 2022, the Australian media drew attention to the 600-kilogram seal, who loved to wallow on sunny streets near the city of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. Even earlier-July 2-the seal had its own Instagram, and followed by Internet worshipers. Now 76 thousand people have been signed on his Instagram , and more than 500 thousand on Tiktok . Video fans are especially popular with Nile fans in which a clumsy beast plays with bright orange road cones.

The creators of the Instagram of the Seal said that they called him a Nile. He was born in October 2020. Since June 23, 2022, researchers of the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment of Tasmania watched it on a suburban beach.

On November 14, 2023, a resident of South Tasmania, Amber Harris, said that the seal did not let her go to work. She found him in the morning in the yard when she was about to leave the house. Neil lay next to the car so that the exit was blocked . Because of this, Amber came to work late and, as an excuse, showed the chief of the photo of the seal lying in front of the car.

Harris, along with his colleagues, laughed at the adventures of the Nile - he went a long way from the local beach, overcoming the ground road in the hill. “I think this will enter the books as the best justification in history, so as not to go to work,” Harris said then.

Since then, Nile has become a world star: on the video popular on the Internet, he enjoys a shower from a garden hose, growls touchingly on the threshold of someone’s house and suddenly approaches random passers-by.

Local residents are asked not to come closer to seals than 10 meters (funny tablets are even devoted to this), but not everyone complies with these rules. These animals are predators, and they can bite a person if they feel a threat. The bite itself is unlikely to be fatal, but bacteria can bring and antibiotics will be required for treatment.

Unlike other seals born in wild colonies, Nile was born on the beach near the city, says Dr. Klave R. McMahon, an ecologist from the Sydney Institute of Marines. These animals, according to the scientist, usually return to the places where they were born - perhaps that is why the Nile considers the suburbs of Hobart his home.

Niles can threaten the danger next to people

The Nile belongs to the southern sea elephants, one of the types of family of real seals. These are the largest nasty in the world. In Australia, they are considered a vulnerable look. In Tasmania, they even created a special marine park with an area of ​​16 million hectares, in which the population of seals is restored. South sea elephants go to land a couple of times a year for reproduction and molting-usually for two to three summer months. After that, they usually return to the sea.

Environmentalists are worried about the fact that wild animals, especially large ones as Neil, feel comfortable next to people. In April 2023, the authorities even had to move the Nile to a safe place, because he was disturbed by people and dogs . In December, the Nile Instagram published a message that naval biologists advise not to report the current location of the beast.

According to Dr. Makmehon, it is likely that in the coming years the Nile, whom scientists monitor with the help of a GPS tracker, will continue to return to Hobart, unless he will find a group of sea elephants with which he can multiply.