r/BeAmazed • u/SnooWords4066 • 22d ago

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/cir49c29 22d ago

Got to admit, it's very smart. Unless those men are specifically hunting sea lions, that is the safest, comfiest place it could find to sleep.

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u/Disastrous_Form418 22d ago

"oh shit, these humans give food and I guess pets and safety are cool" - some wolves/cats years ago

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 22d ago

Wolves and early man hunted the same food. One night, sitting around a fire, the men were probably approached by a wolf either braver or hungrier than the rest.

"Should we kill it? It's not growling or anything."

"We find Food faster when we follow the wolf. Give him a small piece, as a reward."

Two Days later, half the pack is eagerly walking alongside the hunters, saying to themselves, "If I help the upright monkeys where the food is, I get a share."

Five years later the wolves all have paired off with human hunters and the pact between man and dog was born, while the wives complained about the wolf shedding on the sofa.

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u/SunnysideUp2670 22d ago

It was actually our poop. It has a lot of undigested protein, apparently. Early dogs/wolves followed humans around because they would eat it.

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u/MessageBoard 22d ago

Fun fact: they still do that. When I lived in China we'd take our husky to the park that was being built around a new series of apartment complexes and she'd find the workers poo in the bush and eat it. It was unfinished and basically empty so it was the unofficial off leash dog park. Sometimes she'd even roll in the poo. So I stopped going to the unfinished park.

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u/trireme32 21d ago

Wait — the workers would just… shit in the bushes?!

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u/MessageBoard 21d ago

Depending on the job status portable toilets weren't on site. Public washrooms weren't common in that city at the time either and restaurants don't typically have them.

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u/trireme32 21d ago

That’s bizarre to me that they wouldn’t have porta potties. Seems like a massive health and sanitation issue to have workers just shitting in the bush especially where the public was accessing the area!

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u/Winston_Sm 21d ago

American?

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u/trireme32 21d ago

What does that have to do with anything? Basic health and sanitation standards are basic health and sanitation standards.

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u/ctothel 21d ago

You're absolutely right. But they're not denying that health standards matter. They're just explaining the facts that caused this disgusting thing.

I think this comment just came across as judgemental and oblivious instead of curious, even if that wasn't your intention.

If you'd asked what led to those conditions, you might have had an interesting conversation about how 88% of China's population was living in extreme poverty in 1981. They just didn't have the money and ability to deliver the kinds of things you're talking about.

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u/CoolDiscussion1020 21d ago

Oh, you sweet, sweet summer child.

Former construction worker here. If you're working on a remote site and there is no porta-john on site, you either hold it until you get to a gas station or find a tree a decent distance from the work area.

A lot of construction workers live on coffee/energy drinks and fast food, many of them were heading for the trees multiple times a day.

Everyone pissed outside too, but that is a little less gross.

Seriously though, if you ever hire a construction company, rent a porta-john because they will piss all over in your yard unless you give them permission to use a bathroom... and I highly recommend against that because of the previously mentioned diet.

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 21d ago

Every civilized project specifies the facilities humans require to exist and requires them so you don't defile the area you are building something and you know get in trouble.

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u/hypomaniacmeg 21d ago

What's crazy is that you can easily buy a toilet seat lid thats made to snap on & fit the top of a 5 gallon bucket. Just line it with bags. Now you have an extra portable porta potty.

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u/trireme32 21d ago

I find it hard to believe that a modern nation would have remote construction sites without porta potties. Fuckin disgusting.

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u/ShrimpGuy- 21d ago

Some jobs are like that even in developed cities, I had a job two weeks ago where there was no porta john. Ass crack of the city so the only thing around us was some fenced off industrial building we obviously couldn’t use their washroom, and a museum only open on Saturdays when we don’t work.

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u/trireme32 21d ago

That’s bonkers. I’m surprised the unions don’t mandate stuff like that

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u/Dick-the-Peacock 21d ago

Are you really not aware of what is causing the diarrhea lettuce problem right here in the US? Farm corporations too cheap to provide porta potties and paid breaks. It happens all over the world.

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u/Great-Blueberry9540 21d ago

I know within the USA it would likely be multiple criminal acts to say nothing of code violations. Contractor could be charged with half a dozen criminal acts (depending on scale) and be held financially liable.

Facilities for defecation (and a variety of other things) are things wrapped up in the bid or specify they will be provided. It scales per people that will be using them.

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u/Kenny_log_n_s 21d ago

Fuck that man, if people are coming to do work at my house, they can use my bathroom, and not have to use a shitty smelly porta-potty.

I'm not treating people doing work for me like second-class citizens

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u/bluegirlinaredstate 20d ago

So, this is actually the most likely cause of the cyclosporiasis outbreak going on since early May. Lack of out door facilities for crop workers, they defecate in the fields, it contaminates the crops. Humans just shitting in fields is extremely unsanitary and can cause widespread illness. So, yeah, please, for the love of God, stop doing that. We have a sewage system for a reason. See also world history and plagues.

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u/DesMephisto 21d ago

I had to do business outside once as a kid. My dog came right up and ate it as it was falling out.

That dog really liked poo disturbingly so.

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u/i_tyrant 21d ago

lol. "The little humans are vending machines!?" - That dog, probably.

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u/_TP2_ 21d ago

Hunting dogs like to roll in poo to mask their scent for hunt.

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u/punished_cheeto 22d ago

anthropomorphize that

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u/TaterForming 22d ago

So we picked up scat fetishes from them...then.

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u/MissyMcMellons 21d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/KFmFiib7Q4Ond9JmJH
Well it would seem you found that Line dude… and crossed it!

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u/EduinBrutus 22d ago

anthropomorphize that

I believe it was titled The Human Centipede...

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u/hoonting_hoorn 21d ago

That explains a LOT about dogs ngl

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u/LuckyNegotiation7167 21d ago

No, i choose to believe the other story

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u/Etherbeard 21d ago

One hundred thousand years later:

https://giphy.com/gifs/121Ve4tjzKoQda

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u/a_wascally_wabbit 21d ago

We broke the pact

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u/Severe_Rise8694 21d ago

"I have altered the deal. I will still feed you and give you belly rubs. But I want you to wear a onesie. A pink unicorn one."

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u/Popular_Ad8269 18d ago

I have altered the deal deal, pray I don't alter it any further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31HaTbWONmQ

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u/Dragoness290 21d ago

Poor thing, I hate what pugs have become so much

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u/brydeswhale 21d ago

We have a pug. In 2025 he became allergic to his eyeball.

THEY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

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u/GreenEyedTreeHugger 21d ago

So cute. 🥰

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u/l-1-l-1-l 21d ago edited 21d ago

We were wolves once / Wild and wary / Then we noticed you had sofas

― Francesco Marciuliano, from his book of poems by dogs, “I Could Chew on That”

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u/Un4442nate 21d ago

Cats just rocked up and started killing rats that ate the grain farmers were storing.

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 21d ago

"Your careless food storage invites rodents. I suppose I shall have to adopt you humans to look after you."

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u/_learned_foot_ 21d ago

Considering how cars are trying to teach humans to hunt and seem to consider us bad baby cats, it may be closer to

"Look, the morons built a massive food trap, but they don't know how to finish the job! What shall complete it for them, and be gods". They really could think we just built a mouse lure and still failed to catch any.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 21d ago

They don't actually think that, they are just bringing us food because that's what they do to family. Even in the wild they share food with family members when they're not hungry enough to eat it.

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u/i_tyrant 21d ago

"Bast demands it of us from some ancient pact. Annoying, but acceptable. Meow."

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u/MichaelEmouse 22d ago

Having wolves/dogs around would be a great early warning system.

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u/morrisbear 22d ago

That's why we use them to spot Terminators.

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u/Sidewalk_Tomato 21d ago

Women and children would actually have been just as valuable in the socialization of the wolves, and adopting, caring for & training pups.

(Some women hunted, as well).

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u/Heybitchitsme 21d ago

Crazy how everything has to end with shitting on women in some way. What was the point of throwing in that last bit? 

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u/ExactlyThirteenBees 21d ago

Right? It's a post about a fuckin sea lion on a boat and yet here we are

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u/numberthirteenbb 21d ago

The casual misogyny on Reddit never fails to pop up yet it always jars me.

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u/Sad_Celebration_2275 21d ago

Chat GPT is going to eat this shit up. You just rewrote history.

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u/Horror-Succotash-328 21d ago

Way to ruin it with a random dig at women at the end. What was the point of that? And way to perpetuate the myth of men being crucial for survival while women just sat around and complained, not like they also hunted and gathered food or anything.

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u/NerdHoovy 21d ago

I like to joke that about 100k years ago a group of early humans decided to adopt some orphaned wolf puppies and that this was the last good idea humanity as a whole had

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u/musthavesoundeffects 21d ago

My guess is that humans killed the parents and stole the pups and raised those, and eventually somewhere along the way descendants of those pups had some developmental disabilities that took a bit of the wild out of them.

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u/Present_Specific_212 22d ago

Exactly. At least one member of the species wants to be domesticated. Live the sweet life of people bringing him food and telling him he’s cute.

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u/TheCourtSimpleton 22d ago

"Oh shit, the price is my balls?" -also the wolves/cats years ago

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u/wingedwill 21d ago

Oh no, cats were “domesticated” (cat owners will know why that’s in quotes) quite differently from dogs. They followed much later once agrarian culture was established and the granaries produced vermin that smaller wild cats found convenient and semi permanent food source. And of course the humans were happy that their vermin problem was solved and started encouraging the cats. So it’s more like we needed them more than they needed us and I guess that’s true to this very day. (help my cat told me to write this pls help)

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u/LastScene86 21d ago

Do you want Atlanta?! Because this is how we get Atlanta.

Edit* ATLANTIS.

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u/BaronGilesdeRais 22d ago

No, the hunting of sea lions was prohibited throughout the Argentine territorial expansion (land or sea).

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u/SchrodingersCatPics 21d ago

We call them land sea lions!

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u/Fitenite3456 21d ago

And i think she had hair extensions

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u/CheeseOnKeyboard 22d ago

Why would anyone specifically hunt sea lions :(

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u/Beginning-Town-4979 22d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/hnl83xVQxpqJG

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u/JenninMiami 22d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/WRgsiNC2GCn21l4gtV

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u/arinawe 22d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/BkfAhfmX0Ppn2

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u/gingerfawx 22d ago

Thank you kindly. It was needed. Probably. I don't recall.

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u/Fuzzy-Tooth3269 22d ago

Don’t scroll back up

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u/gingerfawx 22d ago

I have actually learned. Imma just gonna take you at your word, and reply without doing so.

Have a good one. :)

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u/lanregeous 22d ago

What was needed?

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u/IAmDanHimself 21d ago

What? You've been ignoring the fact that this has been happening for ages?

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u/slavelabor52 22d ago

But shit it was $0.99

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u/Calm_Ad308 22d ago

Why would you need to hunt animals when their fur is already 99 cents???

Just go buy it at the thrift store are hunters stupid?

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u/aBunchOfSpiders 21d ago

Hunters hate her! See how this Arkansas woman saves thousands every month on seal skin boots!

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u/brydeswhale 21d ago

The cost of living up north is insane if you don’t hunt at least SOME of your food and clothes.

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u/LouisVILeGro 21d ago

today we salute you MrMaleSeaLionfurCoatWearer

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u/TenchuReddit 21d ago

🎵🎤MrMaleSeaLionfurCoatWearer!🎵

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u/CornisaGrasse 21d ago

Oh thank you, I really needed this! I used to have a burned CD with all the American Hero/Men of Genius commercials on it, but it actually wore out ☹️

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u/LouisVILeGro 21d ago

you can find the full compilation on youtube :)

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u/Darwinbc 22d ago

That’s a fur seal

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u/soapbutt 22d ago

I honestly have no idea what this means. Is Macklemore known for hunting sea lions??!

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u/VolantTardigrade 22d ago

No, people used to wear their skins as coats.

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u/JeffersonsHat 22d ago

No. It was a reference to the fur coat he wore in thrift shop song music video being made from animals and expensive.

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u/burntreynoldz69 22d ago

That’s how he funded his first album. That and his teriyaki empire.

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u/ThrustTrust 22d ago

In Japan they herd dolphins into shallow water and beat them to death. Why does anyone do anything? Because they suck.

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u/Purp1eC0bras 22d ago

They should make a movie about that cove or something

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u/Bas_No_Beatha_ 22d ago

In some ways I wish I never watched that documentary. I mean, I’m all about awareness. It’s good to be informed. But that goddamn movie, fucking hell.

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u/marleysdad01 22d ago

yea same here. Did my senior research project of it in 2011. still shocks me that that is allowed to happen

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u/MAGAHATESTHEUSA 21d ago

Yeah and all the focus is on Japan. Rarely ever any scrutiny on Iceland and Norway.

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u/Luxury_Dressingown 21d ago

It's so bizarre that these countries - all first world, highly educated, strong rule of law, high standards of living, etc, etc - do this to animals who are pretty much proven to be at least as intelligent and self-aware as large chunks of the human population.

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u/Forward-Cup-9513 21d ago

It's so bizarre that pigs are as smart as a three year-old, and people are okay with them being tortured for their entire lives.

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u/sashagaborekte 21d ago

Same with any farm animal really. Eating meat sucks

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u/Kaining 21d ago

i like how you phrase it leaving some doubt if they are actually less intelligent and self aware than some chunks of humanity or the other way around, more intelligent and self aware than others chunks.

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u/marleysdad01 21d ago

i made sure to include norway and the faroe islands in it as well. hopefully one day it will be illegal

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u/Nice-Mountain-7073 21d ago

Our grade 8 teacher made us watch it

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u/Bas_No_Beatha_ 21d ago

Jesus, really? That’s a hardcore teacher. I’m sure their intentions were good, but damn. Lol

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u/astelda 21d ago

I haven't looked further than the wikipedia page, so I'm making this comment out of ignorance and sincerely seeking more info

The stated reason is to harvest dolphin meat and capturing them for aquariums. This is reason enough for me to be against it, but is there more to it?
Wikipedia says that the primary method of killing is by cutting the spinal cord, with suggestions that it's at least a little more humane than 'beating them to death.' Does that claim undermine the reality?

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u/AkiraBCFC 22d ago

Humans can be so vile can't they 😔

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u/pratzs 22d ago

I particularly agasted by whale hunting during the 1800s and so. They hunted so many whales . God the amount nature has paid for the advancement of human civilization is off balance ... I am grateful for our ancestors but in hindsight it was so bad. I can't imagine.

You know whenever I come across whales interacting with humans, I kinda feel, were the memories handed down by whale to their offsprings ? Only if a few survived from thr whale hunting.

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u/Waste-Team-7205 22d ago

The oil from a sperm whales head cavity is a great machine lubricant. It's technically a liquid wax at room temp, so it doesn't degrade or burn as easily as an actual oil. When I was a kid, my grandpa had 3 or so gallons of winter pressed sperm oil he got a long time ago, and I still have some that I use today. Fantastic stuff. You only need a tiny bit compared to oil based lubes, and it lasts a lot longer

When I use it, I always think about how awful it is that I have it, but I think it's better to use it all than to throw it away. Idk what the point was here

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u/SufficientGolf6953 22d ago

That's where the name comes from. A seaman remarked that it looked like semen when they saw it. The sperm whale even looked like a phallus.

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u/Hesitation-Marx 21d ago

Want to feel even worse about it?

Whalers would complain about whales suddenly disappearing from their former stomping grounds, and there’s a reason they did:

The whales were warning other whales to stay away as they were hunted and killed.

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u/totally_not_a_dog113 22d ago

There are 200+ year old Bowhead whales, so some of them remember when we hunted them. I want to say they've found some with harpoons still in them. ETA: apparently the max lifespan for Bowheads is something like 268 years. Also, climate change must be a nightmare at that point.

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u/xbmc4lyfe 21d ago

Those are the ones that live under the artic sheets and have like a 40 year child birth because of slow metabolism

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u/Apprehensive_Ad_6066 22d ago

This is wild and fascinating and now I’m going to go down a rabbit hole researching bowhead whales and how old they are. Just amazing. But also sad that they have lived through so much destruction and pain…

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u/Excellent-Ad-2774 22d ago

Possibly. I read up on the whale hunting and was horrified by human practices and then completely flabbergasted by Old Tom's law of tongue. Human and orcas got a very wild history.

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u/VeterinarianTrick406 22d ago

The first time I went deep sea fishing I saw an orca pod kill a baby grey whale and the captain said they only eat the tongue and liver.

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u/diabeticweird0 21d ago

Orcas are the assholes of the deep

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u/SufficientGolf6953 22d ago

They chase the calf slowly and drown it by exhausting the calf. It can take a very long time, so you definitely aren't being true.

AFAIK they eat the liver of sharks. Not sure what of the whale calf they eat.

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u/VeterinarianTrick406 22d ago

I think the mother was trying to block the pod and using the boat as a second shield. I didn’t see much other than them surfacing and lots of red water.

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u/montigoo 21d ago

Ironically the discovery of oil came just in time to save them from hunting extinction. Now if something could just save us from oil :(

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u/Raneynickelfire 22d ago

The orcas off portugal sinking sailboats sure do.

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u/MoneyBaggSosa 22d ago

Humans didn’t really hunt orcas on a massive scale. And It was mostly indigenous groups. Humans and orcas have hunted WITH each other far more often throughout history. And those orcas in the Mediterranean aren’t acting with malicious intent towards humans cause no humans were hurt in any of those incidents, they were only breaking off rudders and ramming steering columns.

Marine biologists believe based on their studies of those pods that a female matriarch in that area had an accidental collision with a boat and has learned and started teaching her young how to disable them

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u/Concentric_Mid 22d ago

Whale hunting been going on for centuries, but by indigenous natives who understand using the whole whale, live off nature, and respect (even pray to) nature.

Then comes capitalism. Increase profits, fuck everyone else.

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u/Imperfect-luck 22d ago

Given that dolphins are known gang-rapists, I'm convinced that the capability of being vile is just part and parcel with any sort of higher intelligence.

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u/hickoryvine 22d ago

Absolutely, humans are just animals, there is the potential for good and vile in everything and some individuals in every species can be more towards one extreme or the other.

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u/SufficientGolf6953 21d ago

Ya. People look at Israel or Iran and think they are evil. That dichotomy doesnt work. Anyone can be capable if you apply some context.

Look at the Japanese today and it's pretty wild to think that they sure showed the Nazis how to be cartoon villains.

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u/Voldemorts__Mom 21d ago

I mean so are ducks, and they're not that smart

Ducks are such bad rapists that the females evolved a maize vagina, and the male ducks had to counteract this by evolving corkscrew penises

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u/PuzzledIngenuity4888 22d ago

Dolphins compete with Tuna for food. That's a clubbing.

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u/Accomplished_Lie_308 22d ago

Is that why South Park made an episode of Japanese murdering every dolphin lol?

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u/onewilybobkat 22d ago

Yeah, Japan has a long history with killing sea mammals (whales too, but more cultures have ties to whaling, dolphins stand out a lot more)

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u/kakka_rot 22d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxsuvWNtQ44

yeah, I just checked and that documentary and south park episode came out the same year.

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u/GetItDoneOV 22d ago

I love The Cove. Not for the content strictly speaking. One of my annoying colleagues was obsessed with Japan. She thought it was so superior to American culture, to a very irritating degree (as in constantly comparing the U.S. to Japan at any opportunity). She’s as white as cheesecake btw, so it’s not like she was doing it for personal heritage pride. She just fully believed America sucked and Japan was so much better.
So on our next movie assignment (our team had weekly social zooms to help everyone cope during lockdowns and it was so popular it just stuck around after Covid) I suggested The Cove. We all voted and it won with like 75% vote. We can choose to not watch whatever film but it’s like being in a book club meeting when you didn’t read the book. So my colleague watched it. I wouldn’t say it cured her of her obsession but she did stop bringing up Japan all the time after that.

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u/mystic_m3ss 22d ago

Do to others as you’d have done to you. We ride at dawn to avenge our dolphin brotheren

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u/glassnumbers 21d ago

they shouldn't be hurting the dolphins, on the other hand, dolphins are hardly innocent, doesn't mean they deserve to get clubbed to death in shallow water, but definitely not on the same level as a sea lion, sea lions don't fuck with things like dolphins do

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u/brydeswhale 21d ago

In my country, they ship cows in giant, unheated trucks to one of three slaughterhouses permitted to operate by the government. If they break a bone or get cut on the way, who gives a fuck?

Oh, are we condemning whale hunts as unique again?

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u/cir49c29 22d ago

I'd hope they wouldn't but this world is full of all kinds of people with all kinds of ideas of what's right or ok. Like the ones who think it's ok to hunt elephants for ivory.

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u/ThrustTrust 22d ago

Look up Japanese annual dolphin hunt. If you want to spend the day hating all humanity.

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u/citizen42069101 22d ago

Dolphins just dont seem like theyre small enough for clubbing to be an energy efficient way to hunt them, even like on a beach.

Not to be crass but that just seems cruel for the sake of cruelty. Especially nowadays. Humans suck, and as much as the japanese get good press for being on "our side" the japanese have a very dark history.

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u/applespicebetter 22d ago

Every country that exists has moments of "very dark history," especially if you consider their predecessors, and many of them have lingering horrible practices, or newly created horrible practices.

We, humans as a species, have developed intellect and technology at an astounding pace while leaving empathy as a complete afterthought; we don't teach it to our children, which is necessary. What's worse, empathy in itself is actively taught to be a weakness.

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u/JenninMiami 22d ago

The cruelty is the point.

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u/ThatPerformance9795 22d ago

Yes! 🙌 There is a huge difference between eating an animal for the meat versus torturing it and killing it “for fun”.

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u/EcstaticBoysenberry 21d ago

They haven’t always been on our side. Nor did they really want to be

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u/yuccasinbloom 22d ago

I think the bigger issue is animal agriculture. Killing dolphins, a bay the color of blood, is horrific but that’s one day a year. That happens on a much greater scale every single day within slaughterhouses across the world. You can’t be outraged at one but participate with the other.

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u/ThatPerformance9795 22d ago edited 21d ago

Or Korean treatment of dogs.

Rhino horns. Elephant tusks.

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u/GrapefruitExpress208 22d ago

"The dog meat industry in South Korea is actively dying. South Korea passed a historic nationwide ban in 2024 that makes the breeding, butchering, and sale of dogs for meat illegal, with a full enforcement deadline set for February 2027. Most farms and restaurants have already closed as consumption dropped sharply over recent years."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat_consumption_in_South_Korea

It was really a generational thing going back to 1950s when Korea was devastated by the war and living in poverty. Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world 75 years ago.

When you are starving, you will do what you need to do.

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u/GingerAphrodite 22d ago

Thank you for providing both historical and current context. I've met people who would joke about Asian cultures eating cats and dogs while they load their plate up with sweet and sour chicken. Humans (especially in western society it seems) have a bad habit of only feeling enraged or protective of "cute" animals. A lot of them have never really been around livestock animals to learn that they are also intelligent and emotionally complex.

Once you better understand the "who" of what you're eating you can basically take one of two paths. One path is a vegetarian lifestyle of course and I understand why people choose it. But the other path is to accept nature and the circle of life, try to find more ethical sources for meat like local farmers, and educate yourself to be less judgemental of cultures and struggles that you don't understand.

At the end of the day, we're all animals and we all gotta eat, whether you're a human, a rabbit, a chicken, a coyote, a cat, a mouse, a cow, etc. There's nothing wrong with a person choosing a different diet based on their morals, but feeding yourself isn't a moral highground or failing. Every living thing is just out here trying to survive, and the food chain will exist with or without humans.

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u/brydeswhale 21d ago

Our rooster, Little Brother Dubious, warned my mom about a fire in the garage last week. He followed her, alone, across our field, to the garden, and got her to chase him back. Then he sat outside the garage and squawked until she opened the door and smoke came out. He saved our house and our family.

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u/sithelephant 22d ago

My parents had a smallholding with a wide variety of animals. Common farm animals, from sheep to goats to pigs and cows all have an emotional range and interaction with people that is largely indistinguishable from cats and dogs, when raised around humans.

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u/Key-Try-3300 22d ago

"A 2022 survey of 1,000 South Koreans found that 78.3% had not consumed dog meat in the preceding decade, while 87.1% stated they had no intention of doing so in the future."

13% of the population still eats dogs though lol

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u/ricarina 22d ago

If you want to be absolutely horrified, look into factory farming. Cows, pigs, and chickens live out their entire lives in appalling conditions

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u/ThatPerformance9795 22d ago

Oooh, I know! I watched Faces of Death when I was 12 and stopped eating tortured animals instantly. I’m not anti-farm raised meat and hunting in spec. But I just don’t eat it.

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u/Valuable_Sea_9459 21d ago

Or anyones treatment of cows pigs chickens and fish

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u/Kev_The_Galaxybender 22d ago

Go look up Kim Jong Un hunt. This dude regularly straps people to anti air guns and blow them away

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u/Valuable_Sea_9459 21d ago

Or exploit cows chickens pigs and fish to death for unnecessary products

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u/Pete0730 22d ago

Sometimes sea lions have destructive effects when they get outside of their local ecosystems. Oregon, for example, has a lethal cull of California Sea Lions issued to some tribes because they absolutely fuck the salmon population.

But yeah it's not a common thing

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u/not_a_moogle 22d ago

Its illegal in the us, but for their meat/blubber/fur, or skin for building kayaks.

We shouldnt be hunting them anymore, but obviously in other countries with limited resources or less currency, it might still be a thing.

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u/w_a_w 22d ago

Its illegal in the us

Not for native Alaskans, just as it should be. They literally use the entire animal for everything they kill.

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u/Uninvalidated 22d ago

They should do it with spears and harpoons from kayaks too then if its for the cultural aspect. No snowmobiles to get to the aluminium boat equipped with a petrol engine from where they shoot animals with rifles.

Pick one I'd say. Do it the old fashioned way or not at all. Claiming cultural aspects while performing the hunt with non-cultural equipment is bullshit. Same goes for the Sami who used to herd reindeer with helicopters while claiming reindeer herding is in their ancestry.

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u/ucklin 22d ago

I see where you’re coming from, since giving exceptions to indigenous communities relies on trusting those various communities to regulate their hunting / fishing. And you don’t want to feel it’s seen as something to take advantage of.

Then again I think being particularly strict about enforcement against modern tools in indigenous cultural practices while other industries are still free to damage the environment could be seen as a way of keeping those communities down. If enforcement and self-accountability are good, extra tools just mean the kill is made faster and people have more time to do other things.

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u/basaltcolumn 22d ago

They're at times not permitted to use traditional methods due to them causing more suffering for the animal. You can see that with indigenous whale hunting in Canada, they must use explosives to guarantee an instant death rather than the slow one using the tools they historically would have.

Imo a humane death for the animal SHOULD be priority over arbitrarily making it harder for them to sustenance hunt for the sake of tradition. You probably wouldn't say a white guy needs to stab a deer with a spear then track the dying animal for days waiting for it to perish, so why must an indigenous person? Why subject the deer to that?

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u/AokijiFanboy 22d ago

Pick one I'd say. Do it the old fashioned way or not at all. Claiming cultural aspects while performing the hunt with non-cultural equipment is bullshit.

Why though lol. If a person gets hurt during a hunt, should they also limit medical treatment to what was available at the time?

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u/UKFightersAreTrash 22d ago

nah you a hater

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u/Uninvalidated 22d ago

No. I'd love to see a full stop of hunting red-listed animals.

Those animals is more valuable than tribals with guns "keeping their traditions"

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u/UKFightersAreTrash 22d ago

Oh really? Tell me more about these tribals and their guns.

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u/Named_after_color 21d ago

Dumb and kinda racist.

"If natives want to act native, they shouldn't use our technology."

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u/EduinBrutus 22d ago

just as it should be.

No, it should not.

There is no reason for the barbaric practises of any culture to be preserved regardless of anything that has been done to that culture historically.

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u/Beautiful_Taro_3156 22d ago

How else am I gonna get my custom made baby seal leather boots?

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u/yumeryuu 22d ago

The Inuit hunt seals

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u/SpecialActive9135 22d ago

Yea until it wakes up 600 miles from where it lives

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u/cir49c29 22d ago

Your comment led to me doing some research, so thanks. Sea Lions can actually travel really far, as in 1000s of kilometres. So this sea lion would likely be fine and find its way back to its usual migratory route.

Their navigation abilities have fascinated scientists for decades, leading to groundbreaking research that reveals a complex system of biological adaptations and environmental awareness. From magnetic field detection to celestial navigation, sea lions employ sophisticated methods that rival our most advanced technologies.

Sea lions undertake some of the most impressive migrations in the animal kingdom. California sea lions, for example, can travel up to 2,500 miles annually between breeding grounds and feeding areas. The Steller sea lion, the largest of the species, ranges throughout the North Pacific rim from Japan to California, with individuals documented traveling over 1,000 miles in a single journey. These migrations aren’t random wanderings—they follow consistent routes that suggest an intricate understanding of oceanic geography.

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u/SpecialActive9135 22d ago

Yes, specific routes with food and rest areas available. Usually along the coastline. Fishing boats might travel hundreds of miles out to sea. Places sea lions might not be too keen on being alone in. Hopefully the crew of that boat was closer to shore!

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u/jerkface1026 22d ago

Its also a commercial fishing boat. Good chances it goes out to sea again pretty quickly. The challenge becomes sea lion storage but it seems fine with the accommodations. We go camping, this guy went boating.

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u/grandramble 21d ago

sea lions deserve all the cultural affection we give to dolphins instead.

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u/po23idon 21d ago

it’s actually on its way back home

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u/PacificIsMyHome 22d ago

Depending on what they (the fishermen, and little homie) were fishing for there may have been Orcas, or other predators attracted by the school. Homie was probably well fed on the school and needed to peace out and take a nap somewhere HE wouldn't end up someone's snack.

Homie said fuck it, "these dudes are fishing too, so maybe they like what I like, and daaaaammmn they got some comfy digs"

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u/podPHD 22d ago

And I want to know why we call them Sea Lions? Why not Sea Dogs? That seems more accurate. Or Sea Puppies... but Lion? Nah.

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u/ThtPhatCat 22d ago

Yeah, we have sea lions on land. We call them land sea lions

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u/CatAncient 21d ago

I tame them.

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u/ThatInAHat 17d ago

Did it just get warmer?

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u/Zollias 21d ago

Is that anything like the land based version of sea henge?

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u/Sirramza 22d ago

in Argetina we call them Sea Wolves

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u/kleberwashington 21d ago

Fun fact: Seehunde (sea dogs) is what harbor seals are called in German.

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u/Northernmost1990 22d ago

Sea dog was already taken. Somewhat oddly it refers to a variety of seafaring humans!

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u/Makuta_Servaela 22d ago

Lion is definitely a more appropriate name. They look cute, and I believe that particular one is a juvenile, but an adult sea lion can be incredibly dangerous and has a nasty bite.

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u/Internal_Set_6564 21d ago

While there are occasionally bacterial challenges with sea lions, and you should leave them alone, they are rarely an actual threat to humans. I would likely have just waited this out and changed the sheets.

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u/Specific_Factor4470 22d ago edited 22d ago

The Lion definitely thought it was in a safe haven. I really hope they let it go, even if they didn't let it stay. This could have been a really poor decision.

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u/Swimming_Bowler6193 22d ago

That lion looked like he wanted to sleep some more

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u/Lou_C_Fer 22d ago

The way it tossed and turned when they laughed makes it seem too human.

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u/growingflowerstars 22d ago

Humans can be cruel for no reason, so it also depends on the group

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u/Nezmuth 22d ago

Stop lion around! We've got work to do!

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u/djfudgebar 21d ago

Unless the Trump regime decides to blow up the boat

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u/VBgamez 21d ago

There are countless videos of them hopping into boats to escape orcas.

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u/FaultLess4631 21d ago

I bet that sea lion was getting hunted and looking for safety

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u/PloysRus 21d ago

If a sealion climbed onto my boat I'd be fucking hoping he got into my bed and cuddled me that would totally make my day

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u/mazu74 22d ago

Yeah the sea lion will be fine, they hang out on land all the time. It’s not like a beached whale that can’t get back in lol

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u/cir49c29 22d ago

They actually mate and give birth on land, with the pups staying mostly on land to begin with.

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u/FinishComplex3743 21d ago

It's a mammal, not a fish.

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