While the world’s attention is elsewhere:

Helmet-Wearing Seals Enlisted as Environmental Detectives
AccuWeather | Mar. 3, 2022 | Zachary Rosenthal

More than a half dozen Weddell seals, each with a futuristic monitoring device weighing just over a pound strapped to their heads, have been helping Japanese researchers learn about the waters under Antarctica’s ice sheet, according to a report from Reuters.

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The researchers, who are studying the impact of global warming on Antarctica’s coastal habitats, hope to outfit penguins with a similar helmet next time.

Pinni Feds.

Penguins now are practically Chechens.

If I see wildlife sporting helmets I’m outta here.

Omni-deer-ectional?  The moose-ad.

That’s government for you: ruttin’ to the corps.

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