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Researchers want to find owner of USB stick frozen in leopard seal poo

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Publish Date
Tue, 5 Feb 2019, 4:00PM
Videos and photos were found on the memory stick. (Photo / Supplied)
Videos and photos were found on the memory stick. (Photo / Supplied)

Researchers want to find owner of USB stick frozen in leopard seal poo

Author
Newstalk ZB ,
Publish Date
Tue, 5 Feb 2019, 4:00PM

A pile of leopard seal poo may be the last place you think to look for a missing USB stick.

For more than a year, a frozen slab of leopard seal poo sat in a NIWA freezer.

NIWA analysis the poo from around the country, helping understand more about the Antarctic predators health and lives.

But when volunteers, Jodie Warren and Melanie Magnan, defrosted a particular lump of leopard seal poo and sifted through it, they found something large and hard.

It turned out be a USB stick.

One of the photos found on the USB stick. 

Warren says the memory stick was in reasonably good condition and once dry they found photos of sea lions in the Caitlins' Porpoise Bay.

They are looking to return the USB stick to its rightful owner, but in return, they'd like some more leopard seal poo. 

“The more we can find out about these creatures, the more we can ensure they are looked after.”

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