{"id":4891,"date":"2019-02-13T23:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/2019\/02\/13\/photos-found-on-usb-stick-found-in-frozen-seal-poo\/"},"modified":"2019-02-13T23:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T23:45:49","slug":"photos-found-on-usb-stick-found-in-frozen-seal-poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/2019\/02\/13\/photos-found-on-usb-stick-found-in-frozen-seal-poo\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos Found on USB Stick Found in Frozen Seal Poo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There have been plenty of stories of photos being found on lost cameras over the years, but here\u2019s a wild lost-and-found story you definitely haven\u2019t<\/em> heard before. A USB drive has been reunited with its owner after it was found in a frozen slab of seal poo.<\/p>\n

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand announced earlier this week<\/a> that while defrosting a frozen block of leopard seal poo that had been in freezer storage, marine biologists were surprised to find a USB stick embedded deep inside the scat.<\/p>\n

The poo had been collected by a Kiwi vet who had been checking on the health of a skinny leopard seal on a beach in November 2017. <\/p>\n

Scientists found that the USB drive was in \u201creasonably good condition\u201d despite likely passing through the guts of a seal and spending a year frozen inside poo. And after drying out the drive for a couple of weeks, the researchers were surprised to find photos and a video intact.<\/p>\n

NIWA then posted a video found on the USB stick to social media in an effort to locate the owner.<\/p>\n

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NIWA is searching for the owner of a USB stick found in the poo of a leopard seal\u2026
Recognise this video? Scientists analysing the scat of leopard seals have come across an unexpected discovery \u2013 a USB stick full of photos & still in working order! https:\/\/t.co\/2SZVkm5az4<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/JLEC8vuHH0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NIWA (@niwa_nz) February 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Within a day, the owner of the USB drive was found.<\/p>\n

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Amanda Nally on when she found out her seal video and missing USB stick had gone viral: \u201cThe minute The Project promo come up actually\u2026 I was walking from one room to another and I was like\u2026 \u2018that looks like\u2026\u2019\u201d #TheProjectNZ<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/zyGVv4TYMc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Project NZ (@TheProject_NZ) February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On remembering the day she took the seal footage: \u201cThey\u2019re endangered as k\u0101k\u0101p\u014d\u2026 To actually get to kayak with them is very special\u201d #TheProjectNZ<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/5XNIYpDsUd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The Project NZ (@TheProject_NZ) February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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After a global search for the mystery owner of the usb memory stick that ended up in a #leopardseal<\/a> poo sample being studied by @niwa_nz<\/a> scientists \u2013 we can reveal the owner was close to home! https:\/\/t.co\/gI5lnAzwb4<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NIWA (@niwa_nz) February 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The brand and model of the USB drive hasn\u2019t been revealed, but whatever drive it is can now advertise itself as being not only weatherproof but possibly digestion-proof as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There have been plenty of stories of photos being found on lost cameras over the years, but here\u2019s a wild lost-and-found story you definitely haven\u2019t heard before. A USB drive has been reunited with its owner after it was found in a frozen slab of seal poo. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webdesignrace.com\/photography_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}