Yulelogs is a grey seal, living in one of the marine sanctuaries of England. He is waiting for his turn to be release back to his habitat, but before this needs to recover and pass the adaptation course.  He had quite tough life, being exhibited in a marine park as well, where he was occasionally fed by visitors with sweets and other junk food.

To mark the milestone, the sanctuary presented him a great gift for his birthday – a huge ice cake all filled with fish.

Yulelogs was thrilled — and  his emotions were captured on a camera.

“Yulelogs absolutely loved his birthday cake,” Georgina Shannon, the marketing and media coordinator for the sanctuary, said. “It’s a great form of enrichment for him also as it requires a bit of thinking on how to get the fish out of the cake!”

“It’s been an incredibly tough few months at the sanctuary and for everyone due to COVID-19,” Shannon said. “So it was just really nice to have a moment of celebration and we see that Yulelogs enjoys his day too.”