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Old 27 September 2018, 06:57 AM
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New Zealand Seal slaps man with octopus in NZ
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Kayakers off Kaikoura in New Zealand were trying to capture the sunbathing seals looking "cute", but nothing was standing in the way of this animal's lunch.


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Old 27 September 2018, 04:45 PM
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*Morgan Freeman voice* The octopus survived...
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The seal went hungry."
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Old 28 September 2018, 04:32 PM
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Biologist nitpick - that appears to be a sea lion, not a seal.
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I don't think you have that right. It's a fur seal, which looks a lot like a sea lion, they share a family, iirc.
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Biggest message that people should learn and follow - DON'T HARASS WILDLIFE!
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I don't think you have that right. It's a fur seal, which looks a lot like a sea lion, they share a family, iirc.
Fur seals are a subfamily of sea lion.
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They are a subfamily of Otariidae which includes eared seals (which includes fur seals) and sea lions.
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Biggest message that people should learn and follow - DON'T HARASS WILDLIFE!
Do you think he was harassing the octopus or the kayaker?

Sorry, Thwacky, we've been doing it wrong this whole time. You're supposed to use an octopus, not a fish.
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Frying Pan Why Did An Octopus-Wielding Sea Lion Slap A Kayaker In The Face?
"Why Did An Octopus-Wielding Sea Lion Slap A Kayaker In The Face?" NPR 28 September 2018

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[Principal investigator and associate research scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz's Institute of Marine Sciences, Colleen] Reichmuth says the video could portray typical sea lion foraging. "The behavior in that video is pretty normal behavior for a sea lion that is feeding on prey that is too big to swallow whole," Reichmuth says.

Sea lions don't have grinding teeth, so while they can hold onto a slippery fish or octopus, they can't chew it well. Instead, they bring the prey to the surface and smash it on the water to break it into bite-size pieces, she says.
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