Yokohama Minazo, (The I has a bucket seal) Japans Largest seal, died this week having charmed visitors for 10 1/2 years and becoming an internet phenomenon at Enoshima Aquarium in Fujisawa.
The Seal soon mastered a variety of "comical" feats, including the incredibly popular stunt where he held a bucket with one flipper while sticking out his tongue...
The aquarium has set up a space in front of Minazo's water tank to allow visitors to leave flowers in the Seals memory...
I always thought that picture had a fake seal in it. I've never seen a Seal with that facial expression in my life. The Japs probably ate his brother to make him scream like that