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Sea lion
* All sea lions are carnivores, eating fish, squid, crabs, and clams.
* More sea lions appear in winter, but many can be seen year round.
* Some sea lions eat fish
  - have layers
  - kill pelicans
  - prey on salmon
* are a unique and important part of our biodiversity
  - able to enter the water during their gradual molting period
  - all one color
* are also able to support themselves on their front two flippers and walk
  - fierce fighters , just like lions
  - as common as sparrows in our own backyards
  - at home both on land and at sea
  - brown and have external ear lobes
  - extremely fast and agile swimmers
  - graceful and agile swimmers, relying mostly on their broad front flippers
  - intelligent animals that are mobile on land
  - large and have external ear flaps
  - luckier because they lack the underfur of their cousins
  - one of the only sources of large hides in the Kodiak Archipelago
  - opportunistic, predatory feeders
  - playful marine mammals and can be observed spending hours playing in the water
  - plentiful
  - preyed on by killer whales and large sharks
  - related to the walrus and the seal
  - seen by hundreds, also migratory birds are present
  - tactile mammals
  - the biggest of the eared seals
* are very social animals
  - vocal as well
  - well-named, sharing many qualities with their terrestrial namesakes
* bask on a sunny beach at Kangaroo Island.
* breathe air.
* breed in small colonies after what are often fierce battles between the males.
* can actually lose weight while stuffing themselves with pollock
  - compete for salmon
  - easily escape the whale's pursuit by scrambling out of the water onto rocky ledges
  - use both their front and back flippers to move on land
* communicate with numerous vocalizations, notably with barks and mother-pup contact calls.
* continue to gather at both rookeries and haul-out sites outside of the breeding season.
* do like to play.
* drape themselves over rocks as if they had no bones at all.
* feed beyond the surf and haul out on shore or on sea stacks.
* frequent the docks where fisherman toss leftovers from their catch.
* gain speed by porpoising, gliding on the water's surface to minimize resistance.
* have a thick layer of fat like the walrus
  - color vision , though it is limited to the blue-green area of the color spectrum
  - dark brown to almost black coarse fur all over their bodies
* have external ear flaps and can move easily on land
  - ears and more developed limbs
  - front flippers that are long and usually hairless
  - larger, blunter snouts than fur seals
  - little earflaps on their heads like earlobes
  - longer flippers than the true or earless seals
  - much larger front flippers which they use to move through the water
  - small, furry, external ears that they can seal off when diving to keep the water out
  - smaller flippers than fur seals
  - visible external ear flaps, and walk on their flippers while on land
* hear better underwater than out of water.
* hunt for food.
* inhabit the ledges in the back of the chamber much of the year.
* is an eared seal
* live all around the world , except in the Atlantic Ocean
  - along the coastlines and islands of the Pacific Ocean
  - alongside the dolphins
  - near rocky areas close to the water and hardened ash
* look like seals, but are really only distant relatives, like third cousins.
* populate the offshore rocks.
* prefer to stay near shore.
* rely on fish, like pollock, as a food source and have to compete with fishermen for it.
* seem to like laying on the rocky outcroppings.
* stay warm in cold water with a layer of fat called blubber.
* swim in their pool and lounge on the rocks at the cave entrance
  - using their longer, winglike front flippers to propel themselves through the water
  - with their front flippers, while seals swim with their hind flippers
* tear off the tender fins, leaving the fish for sea birds.
* travel by swimming, in general, while sea gulls travel mainly through the air.
* use the rocky inter tidal for rest and refuge
  - their powerful front and rear flippers for swimming
* waddle on the shore in noisy colonies.
* walk on all four flippers
  - slow, but they swim very fast and agile
+ Sea lion, Sea Lions and land lions: Pinnipeds
  * Male sea lions have thick fur around the face and neck, which sometimes looks like a lion's mane. Of course, these pinnipeds are not really lions at all, but, like lions, they have fur, breathe air, give birth to live young, and feed milk to their young. They also both eat meat, though sea lions eat the meat of fishes, squids, and sea birds instead of land animals. Sea lions are also fierce fighters, just like lions.