Seal slaps kayaker in face with octopus

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'Mate, what just happened?' Seal slaps kayaker in face with octopus - ‘I could feel all the hard parts of the octopus on my face,’ says Kyle Mulinder

Is the kayaker a trump supporter?

Trump is not regarded favourably by New Zealand people, though our PM is on tv in the states just now being very diplomatic in her measured comments, as a good leader should be.

Loved seeing this young man from the kayak interviewed on NZ tv tonight - he thinks it might be a world first, getting bashed by a seal wielding a live octopus while out for a paddle off the Kaikoura coast. He was laughing about it and his sense of humour was so infectious I was laughing with him, and so was the interviewer..in fact I think the whole country was rocking with laughter...

I hope the kayaker can now pay the mortgage....

Lucky it was NZ and not Australia. The waters of Australia have those blue ringed octopi. Funky markings, but deadly poison. Wouldn't want one of those as a projectile coming at you.

So many deadly species in and around Oz that it's a marvel that the Aussies survive at all!! !

Blue ringed Octopi usually live in rock pools, I could be wrong but I don't think a seal would go after them.
We certainly have some nasty stingers here, in the waters and on land.

Reminds you of stories and or movies in which an intruder breaks into someone's house. And the guy without the gun grabs the family cat and throws the cat into the other guys face before escaping. RAAHHHRRRRR! And the guy with the gun is disabled by a facefull of claws just long enough for the other guy to get away.

The seal was pissed off at these guys in kayaks ( just another rival bunch of sea mammals) invading his territory, and so he grabbed the closest nastiest thing in his apartment to throw at them! Lol!

Poor octopus! Being reduced to a mere projectile in a fight between two mammals!
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But yeah. You Aussies have it hard with all of those poisonous animals, on both land and sea.

You have the one mammal species I have ever heard of that is poisonous.: the duckbill platypus. Though admittedly the platypus is only just barely a mammal, but its a mammal.

The platypus is like an overgrown mole that burrows (either in water or in soil) to escape predators. So its back feet are exposed while it digs. So it has spurs and poison glands on it back feet. Not toxic enough to kill a human, but enough to kill a dog, or to make a human sick.

It was long thought that no land snakes were as toxic as sea snakes. The cobra was three times as poisonous as a rattlesnake, but the bite of a sea snake is thirty times as deadly as rattlesnakes, and ten times that of a cobra. But it was long recognized that the Australian death adder (16 times as deadly as a rattlesnake) is the rare land snake that comes close to sea snakes in toxicity.

But recently they have tested another Australian snake called the "inland taipan" whose bite, it turns out, is fifty times as deadly as that of a rattlesnake. Puts all of the above snakes, including the death adder, and sea snakes, to shame! A bite from a cobra is just a harmless hickey compared to that of inland taipan. You would have one nanosecond to live. Un f*****g real.

Seals quite commonly (so the biologists have told us since the kayak event) throw octopus against rocks to stun the octopus into submission. Since there was no rock immediately handy, this (now famous) seal looked around for something that was hard to bash the octupus against, and the kayak apparently seemed to it the best rock substitute going...

..On sea snakes:

I may be one of the very few WP members who have swum with these in the sea - a whole lot of them. We don't have sea snakes in NZ waters (too cool for them). And being a kiwi, we are not intimidated by the sea, shark attacks are extremely rare here.

During a visit to tropical Niue Island in the Pacific, it was a lovely day and I managed to find access to a beach (there are very few there) and dived in. The waters are crystal clear. Floating, I happened to look down and saw about 30 banded black and white snakes circling a few feet below me. They saw me, but just continued what they were doing, whatever it was they were doing - and I returned back to the rocky shore in case they changed their mind about not minding me being there.

I didn't know for some time after this that this snake is one of the most poisonous in the world, however it rarely bites anyone because it has a very small mouth and a placid temperament.

My other water adventure in Niue also ended abruptly when I was paddling in shallows past a cave and a conger or moray eel leapt toward me in a very menacing and fast fashion. I was younger then and could also move very fast - which I did to put as much distance between it and me in the least possible time. That was far more dangerous than the encounter up close and personal with the sea snakes.

My only other encounter with a snake in the wild was in East Texas, as I was wandering through a bird sanctuary and startled a water moccasin, who also startled me. We headed in opposite directions as fast as we could.

Though I have seen seals on the shore of the South Island of New Zealand, there are colonies of them, I knew they can be aggressively territorial and have to be viewed from a non-threatening distance. Colonialists almost hunted them to extinction once for their fur. They have recovered, but now dogs and some violent people - always men or at least the ones who get caught - attack them and injure or kill them wantonly, though the seals are a protected species. Fortunately this is only a tiny criminal element which the rest of the country holds in absolute contempt. Every country has its animal tormenters, unfortunately.

You have seen some cool stuff in nature.

I used to hike a lot on the local C&O Canal trail near Washington DC. Have seen many snakes, ranging from the obviously non poisonous black snakes, to snakes that look like water moccassins or copperheads. But I have always seen them from a distance. And usually the snake is in the water, and I am up on land. One such snake was swimming my way, and stopped on a dime when it saw me starring down on it from the tow path. Its head stopped abruptly and the rest of its body folded up behind it before it dived for safety.

Have seen many other things like fish hawks, grebes, loons, osprey, and bald eagles.

Saw a log floating in the river once out of the corner of my eye. Then I did a double take when I noticed that the "log" flaired its nostrils, and I realized it was a beaver. The beaver was floating low in the water and its wet fur had a tree bark like pattern. Another time I surprised a family of beavers when I rounded a corner, and one the beavers slapped its tail on the water to sound the alarm. It was like a shot gun blast.

I very much wanted to see a bald eagle in the wild during my trips in the USA. Directed to a gulf course where they nest in St Petersburg FL. (no luck. did see some in the San Antonio zoo though).

One of my favourite things to see when in OZ is their fabulous sea eagles, a bird of such speed, strength and visual acuity that to watch it hunting is breath-taking...

"Seal Slaps Kayaker In Face With Octopus..." I just love animals and nature

Why did the seal slap the kayaker in the face with the octopus?

(I'm drawing a blank! Anybody got a good punchline for this?)

Because....

The kayaker got fresh with the seal?

Batman has the answer

Octopus is just minding it's own business. Crawling about the sea floor, when all of a sudden...

OhH! WwHaattt!!... OhH NO!! ! AAaarrrraaghhhhhhh!! ! !

Octopus 0
Seal 1