Once the seals were comfortable with the game, the team kept track of the animals’ choices as they watched the dots in the simulations. The simulations appeared to show that the seal was heading ...

Male leopard seals in Antarctica sing underwater songs with patterns strikingly similar to human nursery rhymes.

Let the seal play. In the comments, people agree with this latter assessment. “My absolute favorite genre of videos is animals just playing around,” says one.

Antarctic leopard seals sing complex underwater songs with patterns comparable to nursery rhymes, new research reveals.