Bertie Gregory

You see this leopard seal and you're like, okay, I'm going to get in.

And very quickly, I'm going to learn whether this is a leopard seal that is friendly, is not pleased to see me.

You just never know.

And you learn very quickly.

And sometimes...

you get out immediately because you're like, okay, that one didn't like me here.

And some start very shy.

And then in the space of an hour, you can sort of kind of flirt with them and get like, sort of pretend you're not interested in them.

Sort of, they know where you're looking.

So you kind of turn away, face your back and they come sneak up on you and then you go boo.

And it's amazing that you can have this interaction with an animal that may never have seen a human being before, but you can read its body language and even call it.

It can read yours.

You're not just a weird alien human.

It's like, oh no, it knows where you're looking.

It knows whether you're... They often mirror your state.

So it's really important that you're really chill.

So they're really chill.

I've been in the water, taking other people down there that have...

never seen a leopard seal before and I take them in the water and they're really on edge and I hate it because the leopard seal is really on edge.

And then that person, you get them out of the water and it's just me and the leopard seal.