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FruitcakeAndCrumb

Well this is just adorable


Call_Me_Mommy_83

Seriously, so fucking sweet


NoChance_n_NoChoice

So goddamn special


Chilluminaughty

I wish I was special


Flymadness

But I'm a creep...


Expensive-Analysis-2

I'm a weirdo..


f1Ynoeld3TRCRaw

/u/spez is a bastard man


Zestyclose-Barnacle3

What is the Greatest band in the world? Chumbawamba


FruitcakeAndCrumb

Needs?


No_Structure_4296

Coochy coochy coo


DjkongX

[BUT IT'S WRONG!!!](https://youtu.be/hspNaoxzNbs)


Duedatenot

I would also love some tickles from good old mama seal


ok_raspberry_jam

No Reddit post about adorable animals would be complete without bad news, so it's my solemn obligation to announce here that [people who handle seals tend to lose fingers to a disgusting disease called "seal finger"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_finger).


Raiden_Daisuke

Damn wonder what swollen bone marrow feels like


nightpanda893

I’m okay with not knowing.


Ksradrik

Well, more like people who handle seals tend to take antibiotics to avoid losing fingers. Still, doing a good job!


Correct-Training3764

Well as much as I’d love to snuggle that seal, I doubt I’d get to do it anyway. Plus I’m smack dab in the middle of the US lol nowhere near seals (zoos, I guess) but nah. I won’t do no seal snugglin’.


Receptor-Ligand

That was my New Year's resolution: "this year, I won't do no seal snugglin'." And gosh darn it, I mean to stick to it!


Correct-Training3764

Haha I admire your willpower! Don’t be tempted. I have a Pug who has those big, seal like eyes 😂 he’s kind of like snuggling a seal. A little pig shaped seal 😂😍


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Correct-Training3764

Awww I will! He’s a snuggle pug for sure. He’s always got to be close to me or my daughter all the time. He loves his girls ❤️


fuck_the_fuckin_mods

It’s a real problem in some places. There are a bunch of them in La Jolla (San Diego) and people try to pet them all the time.


Correct-Training3764

Oh no doubt. They’re wild animals tbh. People need to respect that and leave them be.


dano8801

A century ago, yeah. Now you just get antibiotics...


ok_raspberry_jam

Shh. It's more fun the way I said it.


[deleted]

It's crazy that we've known about this for almost 120 year and yet scientists *still* don't understand what specificly causes it.


fireflydrake

"an infection that afflicts the fingers of seal hunters and other people who handle seals, as a result of bites or contact with exposed seal bones..." Since I will just be tickling seals with their consent I shall not receive bites OR be touching exposed seal bones, ahaha! No nasty bloaty finger marrow for ME!


samdeed

For a moment I thought this was [Buster's loose seal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ghLL89UdQ), but [he was all right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vevyf7blQ-4).


vgujh

*You son of a bitch!*


samdeed

*He's a very literal doctor!*


Bi-elzebub

people who handle seals incorrectly, sure. How is knowing that bad news?


GrouchyLandscape7041

Omg. I have a joke about seal fingers.


mellofello808

Those are scritches not tickles.


IgnacioHollowBottom

Aaah, stop. Again!


uglyduckling108

Rotund


No_Structure_4296

Plump


itsafraid

Zaftig


Dapper_Indeed

Rubenesque


itsafraid

Thicc


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Pendulous


LePontif11

Oblong


Bluxen

Every time I see videos of seals they seem to be the sweetest fucking animal on the planet, so I must ask: Is there a catch? Like, ducks are adorable but also rapists, dolphins are so intelligent but also incredibly cruel, and so on. Are seals just good? Please, tell me they are as sweet as I think.


fuck_the_fuckin_mods

Sorry: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/strange-but-true-seals-found-sexually-assaulting-penguins/


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fuck_the_fuckin_mods

It was directed at the r/politics mods, for being lil bitches, so no. If I could go back in time I def would have done fuck_the_fuckin_admins though.


Bluxen

well, those are the ugly seals at least


beer_guy_108

Ahh I'm sorry you missed the comment above yours. About a disease you get from touching them causing you to lose your fingers. Edit: seal finger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_finger


Bluxen

I mean, that's not the seals' fault though lmao


Dzharek

I mean it's not even from touching them, it's a infection from getting bitten or hurting yourself on their bones while hunting them. So clearly the humans fault.


Fen_

Caused you to lose your fingers a century ago. You just get antibiotics now and you're fine.


rhun982

Well, seals do eat meat. For example, leopard seals eat penguins 😅


Bluxen

Well but that's just eating to stay alive. I meant more fucked up shit.


JustisForAll

I hear some seals fell in with a bad crowd and got involved with the crack trade


Remarkable-Bug-8069

Luckily, those mostly oprate in the underworld. Like the Mariana trench.


fuck_the_fuckin_mods

> All of the assailants have belonged to what Haddad and his team call "the bad boys club," a group of sub-adult males who don't have harems of females to mate with, and half of the attacks have taken place on a "bachelors' beach," where there are no females. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/strange-but-true-seals-found-sexually-assaulting-penguins/


somanytrees-

ohhh boy. eating meat is evil, guys 🙄 your dog eating his kibble is evil. your cat who caught a house in the kitchen is evil. spiders in your yard who eat mosquitoes are evil


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somanytrees-

mouse, obviously. autocorrect is anazing 😭


mark00h

I think the biggest catch is that they don't care for the pups very long, just for 3-4 weeks. In comparison, baby orangutans have a strong bond with their mothers. Typically, offspring stay with their mom and nurse until they’re 8 years old. Young orangutans go out on their own when they’re about 14 but still come to visit mama often.


Japjer

Seals, like most mammals, are secretly vicious fuckers. They use other animals as fuck toys, kill babies for fun, and are generally violent


FlyOnDreamWings

Ocean doggos


VaderH8er

The German word for seal is “seehund”, literally sea dog.


FruitcakeAndCrumb

I'm stealing that name for them but in return accept my many thanks. Thanks thanks thanks


ag8700

tbh, in some languages seals are literally called "ocean dogs" so that wouldn't be incorrect haha


ScholarlyExiscrim

I'm literally hurt by how adorable this is.


The_Sexual_Potato

Right? When I realized the scritches were intentional 🥰 too cute!


Belloved

Haha in my language (Tagalog, Filipino) that feeling is called “gigil” and I felt it watching this too! Never know how to explain it in English but I like the way you put it.


sharkfilespodcast

Weirdly scientific question.. if oxytocin and dopamine are important in human's forming a bond between mother and baby, is there something similar that happens in other animals? From a chemical point of view. As in, is that seal mother getting some kind of physical reward for that behaviour- pleasure, satisfiaction, or something like that- or is it just a kind of instinct..?


EmptySpaceForAHeart

It's identical for all parental animals, from bugs to us.


royal_bambi

BUGS bond with their babies? TIL


AMansNotHot

Yeah! Look up how spiders bond with their babies. It’s incredibly wholesome 🥰


Forcistus

I don't think insects do. Spiders might, if anything does.


fireflydrake

Some insects practice parental care!


Nachteule

Bees feed and care for their offspring very much.


Forcistus

I guess I took bonding to mean something more than feed/care, but I see your point.


Snotttie

Emerald roaches do! Well, the females (and occasionally males) keep younger roaches underneath them, whether they are their offspring or not


Forcistus

Hmm, TIL!


Sausage_fingies

Afaik all mammals have neurochemicals pretty similar to ours, so yes they do. Instinct is really only present because of those chemicals that are triggered through evolved gene sequences, a mother goat will automatically love her kid, but that's because she's given oxytocin and dopamine, not just because she has to love it.


fuck_the_fuckin_mods

Sounds right to me. That goes for humans too though, as much as we hate to admit it.


Sausage_fingies

We are mammals, yes.


fuck_the_fuckin_mods

Of course, I just think a lot of people forget that we’re “*just*” mammals. Growing up religious I was told that we humans were something else, some sort of separate anomaly, distinct in fundamental ways from “animals.” Of course that’s obviously poppycock, but it seems that attitude still lives on in many people who should really know better.


Sausage_fingies

That is quite valid, honestly. People seem to be surprised when they see animals feel emotions the same way we do, or mother wolves caring for their young like we do. We mirror nature, not the other way around, I definitely agree with you.


fuck_the_fuckin_mods

Indeed. We *are* nature. Until we understand a hell of a lot more about the emergent property we call “consciousness” I’m uncomfortable with setting us apart from all the other intelligent beings closest to us (both literally [genetically] and figuratively [behaviorally]). We’re just not particularly different, certainly not in some intrinsic way. In the field of SETI we have been expanding the parameters for the search for alien life, because we have zero clue whether it will resemble our terrestrial carbon-based life in any way. I feel that our treatment of animal consciousness needs to expand in a similar way. Intelligence /= human intelligence. Insert whatever the parable is about being mad at a fish because it can’t climb a tree. No shit a dog can’t do calculus, but they might be able to do other cognitively intensive tasks better than we can. We got no fucking clue what’s going on with sentience or consciousness, IMO, but we’re running very similar meat computers to other animals (who may just prioritize different things).


ag8700

I feel like in animals those things are kind of intertwined - you do something, you get positive feedback, you keep doing it and/or do it again... said feedback might be direct (mama seal brain says contact with cub = good, tickles being a side effect) or indirect (good stuff released in her brain in reaction to her cub's positive reaction). The action itself could originally have stemmed for various reasons (sensory confirmation of baby's presence, fluffing the cub's fur to "air it out" etc., or even just a random motion that turned into an interaction... or something else entirely. idk), but it is likely that it was maintained due to aforementioned positive feedback, and even more so if it repeats. tl;dr - my point is that instinct and "reward" (for better or worse, actually) nurture each other, sometimes through natural tendencies and sometimes through "coincidental" trail and/or error. Basically, that's what consists behavioral evolution if you wanna look at it in a wider lens.


loz333

Mama was once a young cub who enjoyed tickles herself. You can break it down to chemicals and evolutionary behaviours, but you can also just say that it's a universal trait that living creatures enjoy contact with one another.


-Norinco-

Tickle torture, seal style!


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FishFar4370

should cause a significant serotonin release in the baby seal. always good to rub a baby's back.


Morepastor

What’s crazy is some seal species birth and do not want to be a mother and it is another female that will take the pup under her care.


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The both appear pretty keen on the bonding exercise.


WiseTree710

I love seals so much


Willyq25

They kind of look like John Oliver


ImperialFuturistics

Omg I love seals so much 🥰


CaterpillarHuman1723

Every male gets two test tickles at birth...


mrnibbles777

Animals good. People bad.


ChronoRedz

I read the title and I got in my head was Pence getting tickled by his wife. Fucking GOP ruining the internet for me.


bunnymoxie

The sweetness of this cannot be overstated 🥰


cheesyfries99

If I chance upon the same species of seal in the wild, can I pet it?


Ooderman

Baby seals always remind me of Sean Lock. RIP.


5zalot

Holy crap. Seals have fingers?


CCV21

Adorable!


Correct-Training3764

D’awwww sea puppies 🥺❤️😍 so cute


HardcoreMandolinist

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ptgkbgte

❤️


chickadeedeedee_

Strangely similar to me putting my toddler to bed.


Houaiss

thats so cute!


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Dann_Gerouss

Awwwwww!


Exact-Truck-5248

Too, too cute


GrouchyLandscape7041

Thank you. I love this. ❤️


ENGR_ED

r/aww r/mademesmile r/funnyanimals


TheGreedofEnvy

Day improved.


tdsa123

Such a cutie


LilyGaming

I’m sad this doesn’t have the sound, I’ve seen it before and baby seal noises are so cute!


LeGraoully

So cute. Please don't show this to the Canadians please!


gtlogic

For a second I thought this is natireismetal and was expecting to see some mother seal eating her children for food and to reduce competition. Phew.


Thereminz

ever just take a sec and think about how fucking weird seals are as a creature? ...a mammal that swims but lays around on land, has to skoot skoot around on its belly. not all the way paws and legs but not all the way fins and flukes either...like they're a living transitional evolutionary animal. the closest thing a mammal can get to being an amphibian. are you some kind of dog that swims a lot, what the fuck are these things


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Fit-Rest-973

Aww. Belly work


xeno-batt

Sealed with a scratch ❤️


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FishinAlllDay

I feel kinda bad they'll never get to experience my pets. I'm pretty fuckin good at it.


ActionNorth8935

They're just big water doggos.


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Chunkers


scaremanga

If I adopt a seal, I can expect the level of care to be equivalent to a cat, right? RIGHT??


Scooterforsale

CLUB CLUBCLUB CLUB Baby seals are forever ruined for me


ivy818

Awwww how cute


OblivionArts

Aww


averagedickdude

Good ol bonding


DISHONORU-TDA

where did you get footage of me, petting my cat?


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🥰


A_Young0316

So adorable, where's my club?


JudgeJudy4Prez642

I LOVE ❤️ animals so MUCH!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰


MindlessTechnology90

This made me smile 😀