Apparently, they’re capable of doing more than bouncing balls on their noses and starring in adorable posters.

Seals can orient themselves and navigate to some degree using the stars as a guide. That’s a heck of a lot more than I can do, or most humans, who rely on computerized voices to find their way around these days.

Seals Use Astronomy as Navigation Aid
In a revealing study, researchers at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense have discovered that seals have the ability to recognise stars and groups of stars inside a modified planetarium. A five-metre round pool plus two harbour seals were covered with a dome with 6000 point light sources to simulate the Northern Hemisphere’s starry sky.