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Sea Lion
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
fin-footed marine mammal of the eared seal family (Otariidae).
Sea Lions are often a popular attraction at zoos and aquariums, performing tricks such as throwing and catching balls on their noses and clapping.
Steller Sea Lion
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Sea lions are any of seven species in six genera of modern pinnipeds including one extinct one (the Japanese sea lion).
Sea lions are large, ranging from around 150 kg to over 1,500 kg, and males tend to be much larger than females (called sexual dimorphism). Their bodies are slender and elongate. Small, cartilaginous, external ears are present. All otariids have fur.
SEA LION & MAN
In the early nineteenth century, large numbers of sea lions were killed on the coasts of California. The blubber of the dead animals was used as a source of oil, and the skins were used for making glue.
Sea lions are adapted for movement on land as well as in the water. Wing-like front flippers have a bone structure similar to that in our arms and hands. Swimming with these flippers propels the sea lion forward, while the hind flippers steer.
Sea lion populations in the Gulf of Alaska are dwindling because their prey is declining as commercial fisheries increase their take. Gunshots and net entanglement are also to blame for sea lion deaths.
Sea Lions prefer sandy beaches, usually in isolated bays and sheltered areas. One such site on Kangaroo Island off South Australia has become a popular tourist attraction.
Behaviour and adaptations
Feeding and Diet ...
The sea lion's ancient ancestors, like those of whales and dolphins, lived on land. The modern animal is well adapted to an aquatic environment, with its streamlined body and powerful flippers.
This sea lion is found on islands in the Galapagos Archipelago and off the coast of Ecuador where a population has been introduced (3).
Habitat – Galapagos sea lion ...
Diet: Sea lions are carnivores (meat-eaters); they eat , , , , , and . Seals don't chew their food. They swallow it in large chunks. They can crush the shells of and with their flat back teeth.
Predators: Sea lions are hunted by and some sharks.
Steller sea lions are the largest of the eared seals and are highly aggressive in the breeding season. The males haul out on to rocky shores and then hang on to their hard won territories at any cost.
Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
No photo of the Steller Sea Lion available.
Steller sea lions laze away the day on rocky outcrop near Seward, Alaska
Photograph by Rebecca Smith. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Hooker's Sea Lion
Phocarctos hookeri
The Hooker's Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri) is also commonly called New Zealand Sea Lion. This species resides on the Aukland Islands, Snares Islands, and on Campbell Island, New Zealand.
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California sea lions vary greatly in size depending on the gender of the animal. Females weigh only 200 pounds, whereas males weigh 3 times as much. Both males and females tend to have a dark brown coat, but females often have a slightly lighter coat.
California sea lions separate their nursing and feeding activities. They nurse their pups for 1 to 2 days and then leave the pup ashore while they travel to feeding areas at sea. They spend 2 to 5 days feeding and then return to nurse the pup.
Australian Sea Lion Neophoca cinerea
The Australian Sea Lion is found mainly on offshore islands of Western Australia and Southern Australia. There are only about 10,000 left but the population is stable and it is classified as Near Threatened.
NOAA Steller Sea Lion research page
North Pacific Universities, Marine Mammal Constortium - Sea Lion research
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The California sea lion is probably the most commonly seen pinniped along our coast. It has distinct external ears, large eyes, and elongated front flippers. Its hind flippers can be turned forward under its body, allowing it to walk on land.
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Seals, Sea Lions
California Sea Lion ...
Steller Sea Lion
Order: Carnivora
Family: Otariidae
Eumetopias jubatus - male, upper center; female, lower right; juvenile, lower left
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Sea Lion
Sea lions are eared seals. (Family Otariidae, Subfamily Otariinae)
SEA OTTER
Sea otters are marine mammals with very dense, waterproof fur.
Stellar's Sea Lions
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California Sea Lion
Zalophus californianus (scientific)
The California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) is a coastal sea lion of western North America.
California sea lions are found along the coastlines of western North America, from British Columbia to California and Mexico. Males are dark brown in color and significantly larger, weighing up to 600 lbs.
California Sea Lion Zalophus californianus. Accidental. Known from a single observation at Sand Point Light, Mobile Bay, prior to 1984.
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California Sea Lions usually come ashore on the windward sides of cool, fog-shrouded islands, offshore rocks or islets. Members of the Otariidae Family (eared seals) are usually found only in temperate and subtropical regions.
California sea lions are thought by some to seriously reduce stocks of commercially-valuable fish such as salmon. They also may interfere with nets used by fishermen.
Ways that these animals might be a problem for humans:
crop pest.
Unlike sea lions and eared seals which use their fore flippers for propulsion, harp seals use their hind flippers in a side-to-side action to propel themselves through the water.
Hunting in the Water Some carnivores, like the seal and the sea lion, spend a lot of time hunting in the water. Sea lions, walruses and seals are pinnipeds, which means "fin feet." Pinnipeds are adapted for hunting in the water.
Food items include squid, fish, skates, rays, sharks, sea turtles, sea birds, seals, sea lions, walrus, dolphins, porpoises, and large whales such as fin whales, humpback whales, right whales, minke whales, and gray whales.
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Discussion The Great White Shark (officially called just the White Shark) feeds on a variety of fish, including other sharks, as well as sea lions, birds, sea otters, sea turtles, carrion, and, occasionally, undigestible garbage.
Great white sharks primarily eat fish, smaller sharks, turtles, dolphins, and pinnipeds such as seals and sea lions.Great Whites have also been known to eat garbage that can't be digested. In great white sharks above 3.
Others are seals, sea lions, and fur seals. Pinnipeds have four flippers - one pair in front, and one pair in back. About two-thirds of a walrus's life is spent in the water. Walruses swim along the ocean floor, sensing food with their whiskers.
Otariidae " sea lions, eared seals, fur seals
Odobenidae " walrus
Phocidae " true (earless) seals, elephant seals Canidae " dogs, wolves, foxes, coyotes, dingos Ursidae " bears, panda Procyonidae " raccoons, kinkajous, ringtails, ...
Seals are different from their aquatic cousins, the Fur Seal and Sea lions in a number of ways. The most prominent difference being Fur Seals and Sea lions can walk about on all fours, seals can only wriggle on their stomachs.
Sea lions in California have been observed biting off these fins and tossing the fish around like a Frisbee. Scientists wonder if the sea lions do this in order to soften the fish's tough, sandpapery skin before eating it.
The white shark is usually a solitary hunter, feeding primarily on seals, dophins, large fish, and sea lions. White sharks occasionally attack humans and as a result have earned the infamous reputation of 'man-eaters'.
Scientists also tell us that sharks rarely target people as prey and that when a shark does injure a human, it is often because it has mistaken that person for a seal, a sea lion or one of its usual prey animals.
The harbor seal cannot walk on all four limbs like a sea lion. It moves awkwardly on land, but is well-suited for the water environment.
One way to tell a seal from a sea lion is that the seal has no visible ear flaps.
In addition to global warming and natural predation by sharks, orcas, leopard seals, sea lions and fur seals, other threats to penguins include impacts on habitat due to oil spills, pesticides, construction, ...
Marine mammals including seals and sea lions, fishes; also scavenge on whale carcasses
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Not much is known about the reproduction of the great white shark ; believed to be ovoviviparous ("egg live birth") ...
Pinnipedia, Elephant Seals, Harbor Seals (Phocidae), Stellar Sea Lions(Eumetopais jubata) Otariidae, Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) Otariidae, California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) Otariidae ...
: Depending upon their size and age, predators include other octopuses, various fishes, sea otters, seals, and sea lions. Few of the young survive, but once an octopus is fully grown, it has few predators.
Great whites are skilled predators, hunting seals, sea lions, fish, squid and even smaller whales and sharks. They do not chew their food. They rip prey into chunks they can swallow whole.
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They primarily prey upon marine mammals such as seals, sea lions, and even whales - using their sharp teeth that can be four inches (ten centimeters) long. They are known to grab seals right off the ice. They also eat seabirds, fish, and squid.
Pacific white-sided dolphins swim in groups with other dolphins and sea lions. Often they can be seen doing flips in the air and leaping out of the water!
These dolphins can live up to 45 years! ...
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Seals and Sea Lions (Pinnipedia)
Seals
Sloths, Anteaters, and Armadillos (Edentata) ...
Seal Aquatic carnivorous mammal. Pinnipedia , there are three families consisting of , the eared fur seals and sea lions (Otariidae ) the true, earless , or hair seals (Phocidae) ; and the walrus (0dobenidae).
Visit our picture galleries for penguin breeding site maps, population graphs and Falkland Island bird, seal and sea lion guides. Click the pictures below to explore.
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An opportunistic feeder; salmon, cod and herring, squid, baleen whales, seals and sea lions; also birds, and sea turtles.
Notes ...
Plastic bags, bottle tops and polystyrene foam coffee cups are often found in the stomachs of dead sea lions, dolphins, sea turtles, seabirds, and others.
Many of the species that he introduced to European science are also dead (Steller's Sea Cow), threatened (Steller's Sea Lion, Steller's Eider), or have never been seen again (Steller's Sea Ape, ...
Groups
There are three families of pinnipeds:
earless seals (also called true seals)
eared seals (also called fur seals) and sea lions
walrus.
 See also: Lion, Otter, Whale, California sea lion, Dolphin
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