“It is, of course, important to maintain some academic separation from your study subject as a scientist,” says wildlife biologist and National Geographic grantee, Douglas Krause, although it doesn’t take him long to concede: “But there’s no getting around the fact that Antarctic fur seals are ridiculously cute. It’s exactly the same feeling that you would get walking down the street if an adorable Labrador puppy walked by—you can’t help yourself.”
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