Working USB stick found in leopard seal's year-old frozen faeces

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Source: The Guardian

Working USB stick found in leopard seal's year-old frozen faeces

New Zealand puts out call to find owner of memory stick spotted in frozen poo sample

Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin
Wed 6 Feb 2019 03.20 GMT

A functioning USB stick has been found in the scat of a rare Antarctic leopard seal, prompting New Zealand’s national science body to launch a hunt for the owner.

Volunteers at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) recovered the device while examining the animal’s frozen faeces – which had been sitting in a freezer for over a year.

It revealed a video shot by a kayaker paddling around Porpoise Bay in the Caitlins at the bottom of the South Island. The kayaker is not visible, but the tip of their blue kayak is, as well as footage of leopard seals playing in the cold coastal waters, including a mother and its pup.

Leopard seal scat is valuable to scientists because it holds a wealth of information about what the Antarctic predators eat, their general health and how long they have been in New Zealand waters.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/06/working-usb-stick-found-in-leopard-seals-year-old-frozen-faeces

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1. Blimey. What brand was it?

(Asking the important questions here.)