I was curious to find out what happened to the sea-lion. Oh dear.
"Terry Nutkins and his sidekick sea-lion Gemini (whom he had nurtured from a pup) were regular guests on TV's Animal Magic. He drove Gemini to the studio every week in his Landrover, and was in the habit of winding the passenger window down, and Gemini would stick his head out, dog style.
However, on one trip Nutkins wound the window down a little too low, resulting in Gemini launching himself out of the Landrover into the busy middle lane of the motorway... and meeting a grisly end.
Not wanting to distress younger viewers with such a gruesome story, Nutkins decided to stage a mock return to the wild: he went to a remote seal-filled beach, and filmed a similar-looking animal waddling into the sea, while he stood and waved goodbye and wished him luck."
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Varmint, Sun 24 Jun 2018, 16:59,
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Genuine lol.
He should have been strung up for the cover up. I've still not forgiven Attenborough for pretending that a camera crew had got halfway up an arctic mountain and concealed a camera inside a wild Polar Bear's den to film a cub being born.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 24 Jun 2018, 18:20,
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Released back to the ocean just like Keiko and Bin Laden.
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 24 Jun 2018, 20:29,
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You take that back
I have it on good authority that the story is gospel.
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pineapplecharm D d M Y, H:i, Tue 26 Jun 2018, 11:20,
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