Lost elephant seal is guided back to the ocean by locals | Video

Lost elephant seal brings mayhem to Chilean town as it shuffles through the streets before locals guise it back to sea. A lost elephant seal the size of a small car brought mayhem to a Chilean town on Monday as it shuffled through the streets before locals guided it back to sea. The huge animal managed to lumber down ten blocks of a residential area of Puerto Cisnes, in the country's southern Patagonian region, before returning to its natural habitat with a little bit of help from the locals. Police and Chilean Navy officials joined local residents as they sealed off streets leading further inland with cars and plastic sheeting before using the same tarpaulin to guide it back to the ocean. It made it back to the water shortly before a coronavirus curfew imposed on the town's 2,500 inhabitants. The astonishing scene unfolded late on Monday. Manuel Novoa, a presenter at local radio station Radio Autentica FM who shot footage of the incident and offered a live commentary of the rescue, said: 'Look at all the people who are helping and are using tarpaulin to circle it. 'It's just a few feet from the sea now. The work neighbours have done has been incredible. They're giving it time to rest because it's covered around 10 blocks and must be very tired.' A dog was even seen joining in at one point, wagging its tail as it ran up to the army of helpers running behind the elephant seal as it sped up its belly flops along the tarmac after realising the water was within touching distance. pplause rang out as the animal made it to the ocean between fishing boats anchored by the water's edge and disappeared into the darkness. A Navy official told Mr Novoa as volunteers packed up their plastic sheeting and returned home: 'I want to thank the local community in the name of the Chilean Navy. 'It was a great effort. The seal is safe now and out of danger from humans and dogs that could do it damage.

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