Showing posts with label Banana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Banana. Show all posts

2/10/12

Fitness Friday – Chacoda does crunches

Chacoda, the Atlantic harbor seal, has been practicing a special skill for a while. What do you think?



It's not unusual to seals at rest in this pose. It's called the banana posture—doesn't it kinda look like a curved banana? — and Chuck has been perfecting this for a while. Now that's a lot of crunches!



Seals in the wild also demonstrate this pose as on the Aquarium's Rescue Team blog.



This wild harbor seal appears to be resting based on the banana posture of its body.

5/18/09

#113: A Seal's Banana



For the last few months, I have been working on training Chuck to do a behavior we call a Banana. Interesting name, yes, but pretty fitting since it describes a natural resting behavior where seals lay on their side and lift their head and hind end up slightly, creating a shape that resembles a banana. With this behavior though, I wanted Chuck's final body position to be a little bit more exaggerated. What do you think?

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