Seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop. - Sensationalist Headlines

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110232/180ae9db-c1ba-4fbb-8b01-92844402d7e7/image.png Washington Post: A relaxed-looking juvenile Hawaiian monk seal lounges near a sandy white beach on some green foliage. Its eyes are half-closed, and it has a serene expression on its face. But the seal’s calm demeanor is surprising. Why? Well, there’s a long, black-and-white eel dangling from its right nostril. “It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.” Simeone wasn’t the only person stunned by the photo of the seal and its unusual facial ornament that was shared earlier this week on Facebook by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program. The picture — taken this year in the remote northwestern Hawaiian islands — has since gone viral, drawing attention to a rare phenomenon that continues to baffle scientists such as Charles Littnan, who is now begging the endangered seals to “make better choices.” “We have no idea why this is suddenly happening,” Littnan said. “You see some very strange things if you watch nature long enough, and this could end up being one of these little oddities and mysteries of our careers that 40 years from now, we’ll be retired and still questioning quite how this happened.” While “eel snorting” has yet to really catch on in the seal community, Littnan said he hopes it never does.

Eels must be the real good shit judging by that seal's expression.

Guys, I have a feeling as to why they are going extinct...

this is the seal equivalent of bees-ing

Are the eels hallucinogenic?

mmm that's some good eel

It's possible they're snorting eels to get fucked up. My anthropology professor had a hilarious story about being on site in Kenya and several different species of animals, predator and prey, would come to a fruit tree to eat the fermented fruit to get drunk and there would just be drunk animals stumbling around without killing each other

That FB tracking ID. Now I'm gonna get ads for some crazy shit... probably nose blockage medication.

Sans the lack of fighting, sounds like a typical bar experience. Amazing.

this seal is full of eels. Drop them panties sir william I am no longer infected.

They want them to stop, but I down know how these scientists could possibly seal the d-eel.

Title made me think it was the Navy Seals

Now I'm not saying snorting eels is a bad idea or anything but the seals should probably consult some doctors or experts or something before attempting to inhale random animals.

The seals are going through an emo phase where they purposely get an eel jammed up their nose to express themselves and be different from the others in their seal-ciety. And here we humans come, yanking their individuality away from these poor misfits by yanking their nose-eels out and turning them back into normies. Crawling in my blubber, these shark-wounds will not heal.

Mooses in Sweden do the same thing. Once they get ahold of fermented apples they become wasted.

it's funny because, as much as scientists are "begging seals to make better choices" there will be humans who now go and do this just to see if it gets them high, and end up hospitalized.

In the science world, we call that "natural selection".

I don't think these eels will fit in a human nose.

Surely that'd be the Marines? Not with that attitude, they won't!

Eels are self-lubricating. They'll fit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsuNOSBg7pQ