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Fister Roboto
Feb 21, 2008

https://twitter.com/db_witch/status/1638259248852267031

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Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

false seal!!!

but equally hellish-sounding. the tendency of weird sea sausages towards making horrible noises is very cool imo

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

Gleichheit soll gedeihen

oh, it's a baby!

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Sound, obviously

https://i.imgur.com/9kQhbkx.mp4

Shifty Nipples
Apr 8, 2007

This thread is under my protection now let me know op if anyone tries to pull any sealion shenanigans. :clint:

Dr. Cool Aids
Jul 6, 2009
6ers for sea lions and sealioning

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Did somebody say "external ears"

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

those are clearly prosthetics

stereobreadsticks
Feb 28, 2008
Sea lions, fur seals, and walruses may not be true seals but they're still pretty cool. Me and my brother both have stories of them scaring the poo poo out of us. My brother was at a dive shop in Washington state asking about local conditions ahead of his first dive in the area and was told to watch out because a rather large shark had recently been seen in the area, so he was a bit on edge when he went into the water but his dive went smoothly up until he felt a tug on his flipper. He briefly panicked before turning around and looking into the face of a sea lion playing with his feet. For me, when I was a kid I went on a fishing trip with my parents to the Sacramento River Delta, one of their favorite places to visit. They'd rented a small pontoon boat and we'd been out on the water all day when my dad noticed the motor was acting up a bit so he asked me to pull it out of the water and check to see if the propeller was clogged with weeds. I was bent over and had reached down to pull the weeds out of the rotors when I saw something big and black looming out of the water right next to my face. I jumped back away from the water and a full grown male California sea lion came up for air maybe a foot away from where I'd just been, scared the hell out of me.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Feels like this might've been posted before but some videos on the last pages aren't loading so I'll just post it anyway

https://i.imgur.com/mTivwmA.mp4

No earflaps to be seen here

Shishkahuben
Mar 5, 2009






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNWtlGMSVo


1-800-ARE-U-SLAPPIN

TheSwizzler
May 13, 2005

LETTIN THE CAT OUTTA THE BAG

morse code?

F....I....S....H...P...L....Z

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

sake, to wash it down



this seal is named billy, from the hakone-en aquarium. i think he's still doing the sake thing, although most photos are taken from 2009. seals do, after all, live longer than dogs.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
Mod reaction when sealions raid the thread [2023, animated]

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rs2pr9Fa061r0uzl6.mp4

Elviscat
Jan 1, 2008

Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

stereobreadsticks posted:

My brother was at a dive shop in Washington state asking about local conditions ahead of his first dive in the area and was told to watch out because a rather large shark had recently been seen in the area, so he was a bit on edge when he went into the water but his dive went smoothly up until he felt a tug on his flipper. He briefly panicked before turning around and looking into the face of a sea lion playing with his feet.

I used to work at the submarine base in Washington, which is thousands of acres of forest with a few piers and buildings on it. The Sea Lions love to sun themselves on the fantails of the boats, because they slope gently into the water, and are painted black, I've seen as many as two dozen sea lions chilling on a single boat, and you can hear them barking from easily half a mile away. That and the regular feeding of the attack dolphins always brought a smile to my face.

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
I want to come back as a pilot whale, orca, or leopard seal.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140311-paul-nicklen-leopard-seal-photographer-viral

Here a leopard seal tries to feed a photographer.




quote:

How a Leopard Seal Fed Me Penguins
Photographer describes assignment that "will stay with me forever."


Photographer Paul Nicklen receives an unexpected gift...free food from a major predator.
BYBRIAN CLARK HOWARDNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
PUBLISHED MARCH 11, 2014


While documenting leopard seals in Antarctica for a 2006 National Geographic magazine story, photographer Paul Nicklen had an experience that he says "will stay with me forever" (see Nicklen's photos). That experience has recently resurfaced and gone viral on the Internet, thanks to remixing and postings on Facebook and other outlets.

"Leopard seals are the most incredible animals I've ever had the pleasure of photographing," he said. "When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

"Not only did the leopard seals not attack as some predicted they would, they fed me penguins, followed me around, and generally put on a nonstop show."

In the video above, Nicklen explained how an encounter with one particular female leopard seal was especially poignant. The animal had a head larger than a grizzly bear's, and it took his camera and his head into its mouth.

But instead of harming him, the seal began to "nurture" him. It began to bring him penguins, first alive, then dead, perhaps assuming that he was a "useless predator in her ocean."

The top predator apparently tried to feed the weaker Nicklen for four days as he scuba dived in the area, working on the assignment.

(See more behind-the-scenes videos of Paul Nicklen photographing polar bears and walruses.)

Follow Brian Clark Howard on Twitter and Google+.


HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

Cowslips Warren posted:

I want to come back as a pilot whale, orca, or leopard seal.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/140311-paul-nicklen-leopard-seal-photographer-viral

Here a leopard seal tries to feed a photographer.

This is wonderful. Pro click - he tells the story of this seal trying with increasing exasperation to get him to eat a penguin *very* well.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/IEXKGqh.mp4

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

hey! hey! psst! over here!

Shishkahuben
Mar 5, 2009





Platystemon posted:

Mod reaction when sealions raid the thread [2023, animated]

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_rs2pr9Fa061r0uzl6.mp4

There's so much to love here.

The human reactions ranging from lol to "throw stuff at it"
The dogs desperately trying to help, but one doesn't know what to do and the other is scared of getting too close.
The sheer size of the thing
How disinterested it is in everything except the fish

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Mods on the way to police sealioning ITT

https://i.imgur.com/TRepfFe.mp4

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

pyf mod "the saddest walrus"

also it's time to get intense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wMWya8U_aI

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Things not looking so hot for sea lions right now!


https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/04/more-than-1500-sea-lions-in-chile-die-of-h5n1-bird-flu/


Edit:
https://i.imgur.com/EZNoLn2.mp4

mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 15:46 on Apr 2, 2023

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

not good news for the sea lions, but at least it's only the counterfeits getting hit rather than the real deal seals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un2f4HFenXM

PenguinKnight
Apr 6, 2009

5 minute video of a seal scratching/ grooming itself :3:

https://youtu.be/XGORynKSjG8

Bonster
Mar 3, 2007

Keep rolling, rolling
I was in California and came across a colony of awesome elephant seals. Some of the young males were sparring.



Later they took it to the water.



Other seals were not impressed.



Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

lol at their antics

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/JWcKort.mp4

Yeah I know shut up

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/Clh2lq7.mp4

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/ZFvgGv8.mp4

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Sealion stealing Navy Seal valor

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

they can use machines...

sealmecha on the horizon

Snake Maze
Jul 13, 2016

3.85 Billion years ago
  • Having seen the explosion on the moon, the Devil comes to Venus
Combining the powers of a seal with the keen instincts of a gamer… the ultimate weapon…

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
A tangled skein of bad opinions, the hottest takes, and the the world's most misinformed nonsense. Do not engage with me, it's useless, and better yet, put me on ignore.

He'd do better at pinball.

cause the flippers

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

credburn posted:

He'd do better at pinball.

cause the flippers

:mmmhmm:


Intensive Seal training

https://i.imgur.com/L99tCFy.mp4

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
I choose to believe that there is a seal just out of frame, playing Yoshi’s Island.

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
There's nothing funny about stealing a meal from Neil McBeal the Navy Seal!

https://i.imgur.com/iwzVyw9.mp4

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Feels like this was posted but maybe it was one of the deleted videos

https://i.imgur.com/L5nFYF0.mp4

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credburn
Jun 22, 2016
A tangled skein of bad opinions, the hottest takes, and the the world's most misinformed nonsense. Do not engage with me, it's useless, and better yet, put me on ignore.

mobby_6kl posted:

There's nothing funny about stealing a meal from Neil McBeal the Navy Seal!

https://i.imgur.com/iwzVyw9.mp4

Was the point to bait that thing to coming out of the water? I know little of fishing but that's not a good fishing spot, is it?

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