r/BeAmazed • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 4h ago

Animal Seals can be so unpredictable sometimes.

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u/ShadowMuffin11 4h ago

Any time I see a video like this I get terrified theyre being chased by an orca

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u/kingtaco_17 4h ago

Great White circling below?

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u/uuzitalo 4h ago

Imagine them nibbling on oars while being chased 😂

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u/grungegoth 4h ago

I reckon so

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u/EastSideandDong 4h ago

Can I pet that dog?

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u/twilight-actual 2h ago

They are like dogs. I've been scuba diving with them in Cabo. The dive master brought a semi-deflated ball along, and entire pack came out to play. They would come up in your face and blow bubbles in response to our bubbles.

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u/shelbyrobinson 3h ago

Scuba diving near Deception Isd, a young seal thought I was fascinating and followed me like a puppy. Playing hide and seek with him, he loved the game until he vanished. I turned around and somehow he'd got behind me and he was so excited, his whiskers brushed my mask before he rocketed away in a flurry of bubbles.

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u/Sistahmelz 4h ago

Sea lions are so cute! They do have teeth so be careful! In Oregon we have the sea lion caves where you can watch them. In case you didn't know. Sea lions have little floppy ears where as seals don't.

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u/Vindictive-Vagabond 4h ago

Fur seals (what these are) also have ears lol

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u/BarryTheBystander 3h ago

Both sea lions and eared seals belong to the family Otariidae while true seals belong to a different family, Phocidae. Although fur seals are still technically seals, they’re more closely related to sea lions than true seals. The whole thing seems kinda arbitrary

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u/Dockle 4h ago

But the smmmeelllll in that cave ): I’ve stopped going in

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u/Sistahmelz 1h ago

Yeah, it's stinky for sure! It sticks to your nose for awhile lol!

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u/Catahooo 3h ago

Sea lions are eared seals, so any sea lion can be called a seal. These are cape fur seals in the same eared seal family as sea lions, Otariidae, fur seals can be colloquially referred to as sea lions as well so there's no need to correct anyone in regards to seals with floopy ears.

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u/Sistahmelz 1h ago

Oh, I wasn't meaning to correct anyone. I'm sorry if it came off that way. After visiting the se lion caves I learned a lot about these critters.

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u/arih 1h ago

Sea lions can also elevate themselves on their front flippers whereas seals can’t. They may strictly speaking all be part of the seal family but so many people use the word seal for sea lions - like many people use “bee” for wasps (and those are totally different).

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u/SailorRoo 3h ago

Tell your dog I said hi 👋

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u/MercuryBeach_ 3h ago

The staffy of the sea, your personal space is also their personal space 🤣

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u/AggressiveMongoose54 2h ago

I think I would just take my chances and rip my life jacket off and dive into the water with them and hope they would accept me and I could live with them forever ❤️

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u/Any-Minimum9983 4h ago

Seals really have a mind of their own.

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u/trysca 2h ago

They are sealions

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u/Grandpixbear1 4h ago

The could be trying to get away from danger - a predator .

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u/Rogs3 4h ago

or aliens!!! lol if there was a predetor, they wouldnt be in bunches nibbleing at the oars. you watch too many youtube shorts.

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u/CriticismFun6782 2h ago

Poor Gerald...

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u/Concert_Lover 1h ago

I’ve seen sea lions get aggressive with each other. This lady is being rather calm considering she could be moments from swimming for her life in sea lions infested waters

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u/dzoefit 2h ago

Seapups

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u/thefadderly 2h ago

Sea dogs being sea dogs

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u/SabbyFox 43m ago

They are soooo cute. I love when they look at her and she says “Hello!” so brightly 😄

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u/kdizz79 39m ago

Isn’t there a breakout of rabies happening with cape fur seals ?

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u/Dr_Ragon 16m ago

Thats a sea lion, can tell from the ear protrusions and how they can use their flippers to lift up and ambulate instead of hop.

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u/Hippopotasaurus-Rex 4h ago

Those are sea lions. Not seals.

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u/Catahooo 4h ago edited 3h ago

Its a Cape Fur Seal, same "eared seal" family as sea lions, but not incorrect to call it a seal.

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u/Vindictive-Vagabond 4h ago

They're actually fur seals lol

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u/ExternalCaptain2714 4h ago

If something awful or amazing happens to me, I would really appreciate no Americans being part of it, because I have strict limit of one "oh my god" per event.

I'm happy for these nice gals but I don't even inhale and exhale as much as they throw omgs around

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u/gudetamaronin 3h ago

They don't sound American to me

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u/VerilyShelly 2h ago

Except these aren't Americans.

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u/Kingstad 3h ago

I should like to apologize to all the videos where I got annoyed at someone saying "Allahu Akbar" a hundred times