Taro Toporific wrote:Big Booger wrote:I'm prepared.. I will save Tama-chan and it will be over with hehehe
Getting out the harpoon and sharping it, gonna have seal sashimi.
FREEZE, PUT THE HARPOON DOWN!
Dear Tama-chan: Thanks for the year
The Asahi Shimbun /IHT August 8, 2003
Ah, Tama-chan, it has been a year since you waddled into our lives.
Thursday was the first anniversary since we first spotted your glistening pate in the Tamagawa river in Tokyo-and what a year it has been. There was the day you became a proud citizen of Nishi Ward, Yokohama....
Luckily, Yasuo Tanaka, a member of ``Tama-chan o Mimamoru Kai'' (the society to watch over Tama-chan), has set the record straight. His group arranged to test the DNA of the bearded seals that bobbed up in Katabiragawa and Nakagawa rivers. It was you, Tama-chan, all along.
The DNA analysis was conducted by the Maebashi Institute of Animal Science. Researchers took samples of your fur from banks and boats where you were seen...
``I was convinced the seals spotted in different places were identical,'' said Tanaka. ``But I'm now more than happy to know there is scientific evidence to prove that.''(IHT/Asahi: August 8, 2003)