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emaadsidiki · 29 days

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Life by the bay and the downtown. 🌊🏠

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drhoz · 2 months

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#2422 - Arctocephalus forsteri - Long-nosed Fur Seal

Surprise find while I was looking around the base of Puritutu Rock for interesting limpets.

AKA kekeno, Australasian fur seal, South Australian fur seal, New Zealand fur seal, and Antipodean fur seal. Arctocephalus means "bear head" and the family name Otariidae comes from the Greek otarion meaning "little ear".

Found in Australian coastal waters and offshore islands of southern Australia, from the south-west of Western Australia to just east of Kangaroo Island in South Australia, and around southern Tasmania, New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands, and the nearer subantarctic islands. Happily, small populations are now found in Bass Strait and coastal waters of Victoria and New South Wales as far as the mid-north coast, and around the North Island, but these newer colonies are the result of recovery from their near extinction at the hands of humans.

Females can dive for about 9 minutes and to a depth of about 312 metres. Males can dive for about 15 minutes to a depth of about 380 metres. Their diet includes cephalopods, fish, and birds, including penguins at he southern end of their range. Known predators are killer whales, sharks, male New Zealand sea lions, and until recently humans. Unfortunately many still die in fishing nets, or are illegally killed by fishermen, and pups are very vulnerable to disturbance of the rookeries.

Puritutu Rock, New Plymouth, New Zealand

#otariidae #Arctocephalus #fur seal #eared seal #puritutu rock #pinniped

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pleistocene-pride · 10 months

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The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) is one of the 6 extant species of sea lion in the subfamily Otariinae, which is native to the pacific coasts of North America from southeastern Alaska to central mexico. California sea lions are known to feed on a fish, crustaceans, and mollusks. A social and intelligent species sea lions often work together to drive and hunt individual large fish or schools of smaller fish, they are also known to cooperatively hunt with other predators, such as dolphins, porpoises, and seabirds. Some sea lions have even learned how to use man made damns and fish ladders to catch salmon and trout when they are forced into a bottleneck. California sea lions are themselves preyed upon by orcas and large sharks particularly great whites. California sea lions differ in size, shape, and coloration between the sexes. While females reach around 6 to 7ft (1.8 to 2.1m) long and 200 – 250lbs (90 to 114kgs) in weight, Males can grow up 7.5 to 8.9ft (2.3 to 2.7m) long and 750 to upwards of 1,400lbs (340 to 635kgs) in weight. Females typically have a tawny brown pelage, while males are dark brown to black, with Pups being dark brown or black in color. California sea lions breed gregariously between May and August, when they arrive at their breeding rookeries. Here males establish a territory, which they will try to guard for as long as possible (on average 27 days). Females come ashore pregnant from the previous mating season and will give birth to a single pup soon after arriving. While ashore to care its pup females will mate with one or more males. After 10 days, young will gather in nurseries which are guarded from predators by the males while their mothers return to the ocean to forage. After around 7 months the Pups begin learning to forage at sea and are fully weaned by 1 year old. Under ideal conditions a California seal lion will reach sexual maturity at around 3.5 years for females, and 5 for males, may live up to 30.

#pleistocene #pleistocene pride #pliestocene pride #pliestocene #cenozoic #california sea lion #sea lion #seal #eared seal

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tenth-sentence · 1 year

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In all three of these eared seals, significant proportions of the population do not breed.

"Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity" - Bruce Bagemihl

#book quote #biological exuberance #bruce bagemihl #nonfiction #eared seal #australian sea lion #neophoca cinerea #new zealand sea lion #phocarctos hookeri #northern fur seal #callorhinus ursinus #nonbreeding

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s-oaps · 5 months

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big boy with the skullface 💀

#he looks like a seal with his ears covered #simon ghost riley #ghost #simon riley #call of duty #cod #codedit #gamingedit #modern warfare iii #mwiii #gifs*

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sealsdaily · 5 months

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Ok. Ok. Little background on this for those that aren't Brazilian/don't speak pt: the imperative of Focus is 'Foca', which just so happens to be the same word for seal.

So there's a bunch of these official govt psa's about 'focus on [important thing]' that are just. Like this. Because of that pun