 Minazo was brought from Uruguay in 1995, and was kept at Enoshima Aquarium until his death on October 4, 2005.He was 11 years old; the average life expectancy of an elephant seal is 20 years.In the liner notes, Masami Akita writes that Minazo was made to perform tricks at mealtime, which Akita speculates left him exhausted and may have led to his early death.