Learning wild animal behavior

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them but once

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you once you learn their behavior

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they're just right into you right away

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they just look at you like a big chew

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toy

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i could never see myself living anywhere

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other than the pacific northwest

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i could literally spend every single day

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the rest of my life and never travel

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anywhere other than vancouver island and

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i would still never have enough time to

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see this whole place

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my first introduction to the ocean would

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have definitely come from my mom just

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made the sea lion right there later on

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in life realize it is a pretty unique

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experience to get to out and spend time

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with these animals on a regular basis

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sea lions are a large

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intelligent animal and they're very

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sensitive of what your intentions are

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and and how they choose to interact with

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you is totally their choice

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if you're comfortable and and they're

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inquisitive they'll come and they'll

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chew on your fans or they come up and

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they chew on the edge of your mask or

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give you big kisses on the lips or big

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hugs they wrap their fins around you and

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give you a big hug

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people get sketched out about it

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like i've had lots of people contact me

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and be like don't you think those things

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are aggressive

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just because an animal's putting its

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mouth on you doesn't