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I need to learn the shark trick.
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Lex … as you probably know already, there are similar situations with various species of wildlife as the hypnotized shark in the photo. Baby seals can be pacified into immobility by stroking them. Once they are calmed into immobility you can stack them up like cordwood with nary a peep out of them. I know this because my husband photographed them after stacking, on one photo safari in the Magdalen Islands. They look so sweet that way. Doesn’t make half as impressive a picture as the guy and the shark, however.
I wonder if it would work with politicians. Nah.
Marianne
It’s too expensive to do it with politicians.
Marianne, that’s one pic I’d like to see. I imagine it was a hoot doing it. Nothing like rubbing the bellies of the Chameleons we would catch at my Uncle’s place at Pasadena, TX. They go right to sleep, and it takes a while for them to wake up.
A guy I know who hunts Pheasant but also manages the local range goes out before the hunt and places the birds around the fields where the hunters will walk. He pulls them out the bags or boxes one at a time, puts their little heads under their wings and they promptly go to sleep. He then places them about under bushes, etc, (think easter eggs to be found by kids), and goes on till he’s out of birds. He’ll put out a hundred or two as a time. They stay asleep a long time he says. The dogs will wake them up, however.
“just realized he brought a monkey to a hyena fight…”
Classic.
Photos aside, another thing the “normal” world has stolen from the Forces. There’s that Las Vegas, thing. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
It started out as, what happens on the other side of the Date Line, stays on the other side of the Date Line. Seventh Fleet should sue for copyright infringement.(chuckle-chuckle)
Baboon versus single hyena? I’d put my money on the baboon.
And yes, Spetsnaz are still very much in existence, although they are organized very differently than they were in the day. Ask the Chechens, especially the three that got whacked in Turkey last week.