This fine fellow is a South African Fur Seal, aka Brown Fur Seal, aka Cape Fur Seal, aka Arctocephalus Pusillus, and he lives at the National Seal Sanctuary in Gweek, Cornwall. It has a hideous website but is actually a pretty cool place. If you like seals. If you do not like seals, it is hell on earth.
Fortunately I do like seals greatly, so I had a whale* of a time. Cape fur seals like the one in the above photo are a protected species now in South Africa; sadly the pups are still killed in huge numbers elsewhere in Namibia for their fur (hence the name).
Elsewhere in Gweek you can buy Seal Sanctuary Wine, but rest assured that this is not made out of seals but is in fact the normal kind from grapes, with a picture of a seal on the front.
* Or insert-water-dwelling-mammal-of-your choice
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