NIWA is searching for the owner or a USB stick found in the poo of a leopard seal...
Recognise this video? Scientists analysing the scat or leopard seals have come across an unexpected discovery – a USB stick full of photos & still in working order! https://t.co/2SZVkm5az4 pic.twitter.com/JLEC8vuHH0
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NIWA, The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, launched last week a call in the hope the owner of the indestructible USB stick to find. The stick had more fun images of a playing zeehondenmoeder, filmed from a blue kayak.
Read also Bizarre: scientists find working USB stick back in excrement seal and are now looking for the owner phone Call Kajakster of service appears to be the New Zealand Amanda Nally. A real zeehondenfan and also happen to be the woman who in november 2017 worried the luipaardzeehonden hotline called when she was at Oreti Beach, in the extreme south of New Zealand's south Island, a thin seal had found. Maybe it was the animal sick? the
A veterinarian of NIWA came on the spot to the animal to examine. That proved to be indeed healthy. Nally suggested to the feces of the animal, which is close to layers, to send for analysis. A good idea, because the feces are quite valuable for researchers. They contain a wealth of information about what the animals eat, how healthy they are and how long they are already in New Zealand waters. And so sent the vet the stool to NIWA. Knew Amanda a lot of that shit her own USB-stick contained, which they previously somewhere in the vicinity was lost.
When Amanda saw the pictures pass on tv, she recognized her video. “ Holy shit , that seems to be very on my images”, she screamed. She feared at first that she might geheugenschijfje simply in the manure had dropped, but the scientists from NIWA think that the story of the nativity.
“At NIWA, they are convinced that a bird in my USB-stick has pass and that the luipaardzeehond then the bird has eaten. There were also a lot of feathers in their faeces,” she explains. “And then I come across strange enough along to say ‘oh, here is a steel that we have to NIWA send’.” At NIWA, they confirm the theory.
After a global search for the mystery owner of the usb memory stick that ended up in a #leopardseal poo sample being studied by @niwa_nz scientists - we can reveal the owner was close to home! https://t.co/gI5lnAzwb4
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Her USB stick, she does not return. “I have enough copies of the pictures and videos on it, it's my lievelingsbeelden,” she says. That's all very bizarre, affirms they would like. “This is probably the weirdest set of coincidences ever in my life.”