#otariidae

[sealsdaily]

Today's Sea Lion Is: Making Contact With An Unknown Beast

[snototter]

A Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus wollebaeki) sleeping in Galapagos, Ecuador

by Tim Matthews

[pinniposting]

lots of seals (and sea lions)

[morgansram]

Leaping California Sea Lion

[saritawolf]

California Sea Lion pup (Zalophus californianus) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Shag Point

Late Cretaceous mudstones and sandstones, and bituminous coal, now eroded into headlands, a convinient natural boat harbour, and multiple unmarked mineshafts which are not convinient at all.

Māori extensively settled the area in the 15th Century, and one important tradition holds that a double-hulled trading canoe ran into a storm off the coast here, with the cargo washed ashore and petrified into the famous Matakaea boulders, and less symmetrical boulders around the point and beachs here. They're mudstone concretions, many of them formed around fossils, and in one case around a eight-meter long elasmosaur.

The point is also noteworthy for plant species more normally found in alpine and subalpine grasslands.

Shag Point, Aotearoa New Zealand

[wonder-rooms]

Sea Lion, Our Living World, Vol. I (1885) - Rev. J.G. Wood

*Digitally restored by Molly Wilders, from scans uploaded to Biodiversity Heritage Library

[haveyouseenthisanimal-irl]

[thoughtlessarse]

And relax … a sea lion joins in on a beach siesta on San Cristóbal island, Galápagos, Ecuador -Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

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[sealsdaily]

tghis is what its all about.

he has too much power

[sealsdaily]

Today's Fur Seal Is: Woolly Caterpillar

[snototter]

An Australasian fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri) and suckling pup on Karta Pintingga, Australia

by Charles Sharp

[pinniposting]

stares at u

via

[sealtrick]

Now Im curious what seals are the other panic guys???

(note when i say seal for seal assignments i am referring to seals as in clade pinniped, including true seals, sea lions, fur seals, and walruses)

sooooo i think brendon is a california sea lion because he really just feels like he needs external ear flaps. spencer is a northern fur seal. jon feels very south american fur seal. very otariidae band and i don’t know why

[saritawolf]

California Sea Lion (female) (Zalophus californianus) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Otago Peninsula Eco Restoration Alliance

While in Dunedin we spent the better part of a day out towards the tip of the Otago Peninsula, via a tortously convoluted road that followed the shoreline where the heart had been chewed out of the Dunedin Volcano. There were a couple of things out that end of the Peninsula that @purrdence and I wanted to see - the OPERA eco-reserve where I was hoping to see Yellow-eyed Penguins, and the Little Penguin rookery and Royal Albatross rookery that I'll cover seperately.

I wasn't in the OPERA Reserve for long - they can only handle so many visitors at a time so they had to keep everybody moving - but I still saw a good range of stuff. Including species familiar to me from back in Perth :/