Japan Picture Moment : Baikal Seal performs a “dip in a hot spring”

The Big Picture have an excellent series of photos from zoos from around the world. From the Hakone-en aquarium in Hakone, west of Tokyo, male Baikal Seal Billy performs “a dip in a hot spring” as he holds a sake bottle in a basin with flipper.

It took three months for six-year-old Billy to master this performance, a traditional Japanese style of soaking in a hot spring.

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