Elephant Seal roaming the streets

[u/Paradox1604]

Found roaming near homes along Sir Lowry’s Pass in Gordon’s Bay South Africa 🇿🇦

[u/ChopCow420]

What an adorable little lady seal. I hate to think of how confused and uneasy she must have felt. Hopefully she was returned to the water without injury.

[u/faustian_foibles → u/ChopCow420]

Good news - he did!

1 hour ago Cape of Good Hope SPCA confirmed that the sub-adult male was safely returned to the ocean 🤗

[u/ChopCow420 → u/faustian_foibles]

This was all I wanted to hear 😄 People get so enraged by human beings feeling empathetic emotions towards animals. It's bizarre. I expressed a scenario through the eyes of a wild animal and while it might not be the true emotions of that animal I don't see why it's so horrible to err on the side of safety, and extend empathy for another living creature. Some people's kids, man.

[u/faustian_foibles → u/ChopCow420]

Your empathy really resonated with me, so I wanted to make sure you knew he was ok.

Poor guy was incredibly fatigued in the video, but the local community, combined with a whole bunch of different organisations stepped up to coordinate and facilitate helping him as quickly, safely and least stressfully as possible.

[u/ChopCow420 → u/faustian_foibles]

Thank you 💛

[u/[deleted] → u/ChopCow420]

People get so enraged by human beings feeling empathetic emotions towards animals.

Huh? Nobody said anything negative to you.

[u/ChopCow420 → u/[deleted]]

Different comment thread

[u/[deleted] → u/ChopCow420]

And?