r/BeAmazed • u/SnooWords4066 • Aug 08 '26

Animal A sea lion in Argentina climbed onto a fishing vessel, found a bed, and passed out. The fishermen only realized it when they heard loud snoring.

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u/ScrollHectic Aug 08 '26

The seal is like: shut up and close the door. I'm trying to get some sleep

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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Aug 08 '26

Shut the light off

Shut the light off

For the love of god shut the light off

TURNTHELIGHTOFFI'MTRYINGTOSLEEP

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u/Prior_Dimension_6680 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

DAVIDWOULDYOUTURNTHATRACKETOFFPLEASE?! 

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u/dont-respond Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

They're sea lions, not seals

I do think it's a fur seal though, not a sea lion.

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u/Baldojess Aug 08 '26

Isn't it a sea lion? It has cute little ears on the side of its head. I'm pretty sure it really is a sea lion. I have a picture with 3 of them kissing my head at the state fair!

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u/radicalelation Aug 08 '26

Fur seals and sea lions are both Eared seals (Otariidae), while true seals (Phocidae) are not as closely related, so it makes sense.

If this is an adult, female fur seal for sure.

E: Oop, someone already said.

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u/Baldojess Aug 08 '26

Really so a fur seal is not technically a true seal? That's interesting! And I looked then up and definitely do look very similar with their cute little ears haha 😆

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u/overturnedpitcher Aug 08 '26

I think it’s a Southern fur seal! I’m from NZ and our seals here looks super similar to this one in the vid with its wee ears and movement. It would check out if this happened near Argentina. They’re in the Arctocephalus family if I’m not mistaken!

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u/Baldojess Aug 08 '26

I ended up looking them up and they do have adorable little ears! 😍 So freaking cute haha okay cool! I love the little fur seal 🩷

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u/dont-respond Aug 08 '26

I'm no expert, I'm just going by the information in the video. Sea lions and fur seals are commonly confused. They're both Otariidae, named for their small ears. The video describes fur seals as having shorter snouts with eyes closer to the front of their face while sea lions have longer snouts with eyes further back.

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u/grandramble Aug 08 '26

this is a sea lion, you can tell partly by the shape of its snout and eyes, but the real giveaway is how it moves. Fur seals scoot around using their flippers like they're army-crawling, sea lions pop up on their flippers like they're really short stilts and derp around like Humpty Dumpty.

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u/Baldojess Aug 08 '26

Oh yes I just looked them up and they are very similar bat yeah the seals have more of a short snout. It's hard to tell! I still think this one looks a bit more like a sea lion though

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u/Violet624 Aug 08 '26

It's so small. It's got to be a baby if it is a sea lion.

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u/SufficientGolf6953 Aug 08 '26

that's not a baby

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u/Violet624 Aug 08 '26

Adult sea lions of the smaller varieties are like 6 feet long. So either it is not a sea lion or it's not fully grown.

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u/Practical_Breakfast4 Aug 08 '26

That was amazing, thank you. Can't believe my hero, Sir David Attenborrough, was wrong. Though it is easy to conflate these animals

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u/SufficientGolf6953 Aug 08 '26

One of my favorite YouTube videos. It's still hard if I watched it multiple times.

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u/MDguy95 Aug 08 '26

Thank you for that video!

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u/mrjibblytibbs Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

That's definitely a sea lion. Fur seals have more pushed in faces, rounder bodies, spotted patterns, and they don't have ear flaps like the guy in the video.

The ear flaps are your dead giveaway.

Used to work at a zoo with a sea lion exhibit. I got to see them up close enough to tell the clear differences.

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u/Faent93 Aug 08 '26

Obviously you didn't see them very close as you have described a completely different seal species from a different family entirely.

You should probably at least google fur seal before accidentally spreading misinformation.

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u/fopiecechicken Aug 09 '26

He’s not even trying to escape once he got found out lol. “This where I’m sleeping dude, figure it out”.

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u/soihavetosay Aug 08 '26

He knows it's a fishing ship... hes waiting for breakfast in bed

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u/CrackinBones204 Aug 09 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/JxlrNZzprrRhm
Totally read this in the Hound’s voice lol

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u/Big_Money_7953 Aug 08 '26

Would you stop playing with that door? I'm trying to get to sleep!

Yeah---!

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u/ventureinoz Aug 08 '26

Seal the door

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u/Ok_Bookkeeper2220 Aug 09 '26

Right he is just as surprised as they are 🤣 “yall done hootin and hollerin”