Cape fur seals

Recorded by Daan Hendricks.

"Namibia, Cape Cross, 2015

There is a great sadness to the context of the sounds that are shared below, and it is somehow fittingly expressed by their whimpers, weeps and growls, seemingly conveying both sorrow and aggression. There is a culling in place in this so-called protected reserve, resulting in thousands of deaths each year by the hands of man, using clubs as their blunt tools to butcher these animals to death.

The incredulous explanation of the Namibian government for this policy is that these seals simply are too numerous, their food consumption resulting in losses to the local fishing industries. Even if we would attempt to consider this explanation as vaguely reasonable, the severity of these damages are disputed, and provide regardless no justification as to why this specimen of a human being (www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla…ded&v=3nWfFqowjQg) is profiting from the cull."

Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature

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