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May 30, 2007
Healing Animal / 癒し系 [Animal]
先週ニュースで知ったのですが、YouTubeの「手つなぎラッコ」が人気らしい…。
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YouTube's "Otters holding hands" seems to be very popular..., I learnt it in news last week. |
YouTubeの「手つなぎラッコ (Otters holding hands)」URL：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epUk3T2Kfno
「手つなぎラッコ」動画が大人気＝啓発に有効と水族館も歓迎−カナダ
2007/05/21-11:12
【ニューヨーク２０日時事】「手」（前脚）をつないで水面を漂っている愛らしいラッコのカップルを撮影したビデオがインターネット上に掲載され、２カ月で累計約６０４万回のアクセスを獲得する人気を博している。カップルを飼育するカナダの水族館も、絶滅危惧（きぐ）種に指定されているラッコの保護に向けた啓発になると大歓迎だ。
一躍スターになったのは、カナダ・バンクーバーにあるバンクーバー水族館で飼われている１７歳のメスのニアクと７歳のオスのミロ。ニアクは、１９８９年にアラスカで起きた超大型タンカーの原油流出事故に巻き込まれて保護された環境問題の「生き証人」だ。
[引用元：時事ドットコム]
Vancouver sea otters a hit on YouTube
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 | 5:38 PM PT / CBC News
A pair of sea otters at the Vancouver Aquarium have become international stars, with more than 1.5 million people watching a video of them on the popular YouTube website in the past two weeks.
Nyack and Milo have become YouTube's top-rated animal video ever.
The video is not new. It was shot five years ago by a student at the University of B.C. Cynthia Holmes, now a professor in Florida, said she decided to post the video just two weeks ago.
"It's just sort of an interesting phenomenon. Everybody's linked to it. I don't think it's a particularly remarkable video. I think it's cute."
It's not the first time Nyack has been featured on TV. She was one of the few sea otters to survive getting coated with oil during the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska back in 1989. She was cleaned up and flown to Vancouver, where she has thrived ever since.
Aquarium officials said they hope the internet audience learns that the otters are not only cute, but are an endangered species as well.
[Cited by : cbc.ca]
それにしてもカワイイ！癒されますね〜。
It's so cute!! I was healed very much~.
