Name: 海豹秀--新聞背後 (Seal Show - Behind the News)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:01:02.000Z
Duration: 3 min 25 s
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They're intelligent, playful and can perform impressive tricks.

But this kind of performance has taken these seals and their trainers a lot of hard work!

Trainer: So are you ready for him to come over to the front? Ready?

Trainer: All right then, over to the front we go… all the way over there Mali

Taronga Zoo has several seal trainers including Elly.

Trainer: 1, 2, 3 [Audience yells something]

The animals really are watching our body language and our body signals, so they're all trained

to respond to a cue or a signal, and that could be something as simple as a tap of our

One technique Elly uses is target training.

So to train a wave is a lot of little steps, so we'll start of by touching her flipper,

good girl, and every time we touch her flipper she gets a fish. Then what will happen is

she'll move her flipper to touch her hand like that, touch her hand, touch her hand,

(this is an old one for you) and that's how we get a wave!

Now Maya wasn't just being cheeky! If you were looking closely enough, you might have

As much as I'd like to be a seal trainer, I can't simply do a cue and expect Maya to

follow it. But if Elly walks in dressed in her zoo outfit and with fish on her belt and

Seals use their sensitive whiskers to feel for objects like when balancing a ball on

their nose. But these kinds of tricks can take a while to master.

Some behaviours can take two days, a behaviour like a ball balance can take up to two years.

Trainer: Lets see how he goes [Audience cheers]

It was really astonishing how they can just move the animals

My favourite part was balancing the ball on the nose.

Yeah it looks like they had practiced it for months and months.

The seal show isn't just about entertainment, it also teaches people on how we can help

I think the biggest message for kids today is that one of the greatest threats to marine

animals is that we're eating the same food that they are and there's just not enough

The reality is if seals can't find any fish, they often try stealing them from fishing nets.

Trainer: It's a very, very sad ending. Bit of a drama queen, but you get the idea.

That doesn't mean you have to stop eating seafood. You can find this logo at shops and

restaurants, which means the fish has come from a certified sustainable source.

Whether the seals are on stage as teachers or as entertainers, the trainers make sure

they're always being treated with love and respect.

They do want to come out, they do enjoy it, it's very stimulating, it's very enriching.

But there are days just like us that they don't wanna get out of bed and we respect

that as well and they can just have a day, chilling out with their friends in the pool.

And part of their job is building a strong relationship with their finned and flippered friends!

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