Harbor seal is smitten with butterfly
Staff at the Oregon Zoo witnessed an unlikely friendship blooming between a seal and a butterfly.
As far as adorable animal interactions caught on video may go, the Oregon Zoo has the best one for this week.
While cleaning the seal exhibit at Oregon Zoo, dive safety officer Micah Reese noticed a harbor seal swimming closer and closer to the glass. Soon Micah could tell that the seal, named Kaya, was looking to get close to a butterfly that was hovering outside the enclosure.
The seal instinctively follows the butterfly, swimming this way and that to keep up with the insect. It appears Kaya can't get enough of this interesting newcomer.
A seal and a butterfly are not the most likely pairing, least of all because one lives in the water and one mostly flies around in the sky, but this interaction proves once again that cross-species bonds between animals are possible.
Not only that, they also provide a sweet moment for us to commit to memory so that next time things feel really difficult, you can think "if a seal and a butterfly can be friends, there's nothing I can't do". Or something along those lines.