Feb 5, 2020 · Put your hands together: At long last, a 17-year-long research effort has produced the first-ever footage of a wild grey seal “clapping” its flippers underwater. When trained up at zoos or...

But you won’t find any clapping pinnipeds — that’s seals, sea lions, and walruses — in Animal Behavior 101. Though it’s a trick easily taught to trained captive seals in zoos and aquariums,...

Dr Ben Burville, a researcher at Newcastle University, UK, has been trying for 17 years to fil...more. A grey seal has been captured on camera clapping its flippers underwater for the very...

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Feb 3, 2020 · Ben Burville, a marine biologist at Newcastle University in the UK, filmed a seal clapping its flippers together underwater near the Farne Islands, a group of islands off the northeast coast of...

Why do seals clap their bodies? 🦭 It's not just a cute behavior—it's a form of underwater communication! Learn how seals use these loud claps to send powerf...

Feb 3, 2020 · Although they are known to clap in captivity, a gray seal has been filmed "clapping" its flippers in the wild for the first time.

Feb 5, 2020 · The clap was caught on film by diver Ben Burville, who's been scuba diving with gray seals off the coast of the U.K. for decades. He first saw a wild seal clap underwater some years ago, and has heard the creatures put flipper to flipper a couple of times since.

Feb 3, 2020 · Researchers believe they are the first to film grey seals clapping their flippers underwater. Dr Ben Burville from Newcastle University has spent 17 years trying to capture a seal producing...

Feb 4, 2020 · A sound made by grey seals that was thought to have been a vocalisation is actually produced by male seals clapping their hands underwater. No other marine mammals are known to make sounds in this way.