With facecloth on the head, male Baikal Seal Billy performs "a dip in a hot spring" as he holds a sake bottle in a basin with forefoot at a pool of Hakone-en aquarium in Hakone, west of Tokyo, Tuesday, March 17, 2009. It took some three months for six-year-old Billy to master this performance, a traditional Japanese style of soaking in a hot spring.

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Tue., March 17, 2009