Seal slaps kayaker in the face with an octopus

A bizarre encounter involving a seal, an octopus and a man has been caught on camera. A kayaker inadvertently got a face full of tentacles while coming between a seal and its lunch in waters off New Zealand. Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island has a large population of fur seals. The octopus tried to escape the seal by latching onto the bottom of a kayak but it is not know how successful that strategy was in the long-run Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► • ’Mate, what just happened?’ Seal slaps kayaker in face with octopus ► Support the Guardian ► The Guardian ► The Guardian YouTube network: The Guardian ► Owen Jones talks ► Guardian Football ► Guardian Sport ► Guardian Culture ►