Chris Krishna Pillay - CSIRO's performing seal

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CSIRO's Chris Krishna-Pillay helped University of Tasmania's Virginia Andrews-Goff demonstrate how Virginia captures Weddell seals, anaesthetises them and attached a radio transmitter. Virginia, a zoologist studyimg the forgaing habits of Wendell seals in Antarctica, was one of four young scientists at the SCIENTISTS ON THE LOOSE gig (Hobart , state of Tasmania, Australia) on April 2, 2009. 500 high-schoolers watched while Jay Blanchard, an astrophysicist from Uni of Tasmania, held Chris ...