Leading the campaign for a global response to NEOs and a closer exploration of their physicalmakeup is former astronaut Russell Schweickart, who piloted the lunar module of Apollo 9 in 1969.
Security camera footage from the aquarium shows the seal making several unsuccessful attempts to scale the barrier fencing, hampered by her sheer size and physical make-up.
Recent research by the Eating Disorders Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry in London found that eating disorders could be due to the physical or genetic make-up of the brain.