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Skylanth — Lab Slave 11 - the difference
Published: 2005-01-30 01:42:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 893; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 160
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In response to all those people who visit the lab, take one look at Soquel and Cypress, and go "Oooh, seals!" Soquel and Cypress are sea lions, not seals. Get it right people.Though it is worth noting that some other sea lion critters (in the family Otariiadae I think is how it's spelled) are called "fur seals". Otariiad refers to their external ear flap, which phocids, the seals do not have.
Now you be edgumicated.
EDIT: Woops, forgot to make it look like camcorder footage. Much better now. Sorry for the reupload.
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I love this so much, have just started a phd on pinnipeds having fallen off the marine mammal vollunteer wagon and I should print it off and stick it on something so I can just hold it up for people to read >.<
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Heh, feel free to do so! Those pinipeds don't get no respect, sometimes.
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I second Ramune Faerie by thanking you for doing this. XD We work at the Vancouver Aquarium together and it's amazing how many people mix up sea lions and seals. The worst is when guests see the sea otters and call them seals. O_o; .... But by far the worst I have ever heard was that Tag, our steller sea lion, was a beluga.
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Wow, that's the greatest slip I've ever heard. A beluga indeed.
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Thank you!!! lol It drives me nuts...
I work at the Vancouver Aquarium, and we have a large male Stellar Sea Lion in with soem harbor seals right now...you wouldn't believe how many times I hear, "Oh look at the big seal (sometimes walrus) and her babies!!"
Things like that...just...peeve me off so much! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that feels this way.
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Oh my God Vancouver aquarium? I've heard fantastic things about them.
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Yeah, I loves me some harbor seals. They always seem to be smiling...
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Ok, cool. I knew that sea lions had the ear flaps. I was confused when in the Australian zoos and seeing "fur seal" on something that had ear flaps.
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Yes, that is a point. Fur seals, while in the same group (otariiadae, I think is how you spell it) with the sea lions, they're called "fur seals", by convention. There's also some differences including the fact that they have thicker coats and rely more on their fur to keep them warm. And the other convention, at least in Australia and European countries, is to call all pinnipeds "seals".
However, local Californians getting harbor seals and sea lions mixed up is just unreasonable. 
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Aaaaaack. *rolls eyes* Those should be sea weasels.
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*fears the herring*
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PFFFFTTTT!! I can't fear the herring! It has X's for eyes! *giggles madly*
*breathes*
Cornobbling, eh? I'll file that away with my other funny words like "defenestration." And I shall never again mix up sea lions and seals.
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defenestration?
You need to visit "Oceans of Fun", Wisconson, and check up on Bodega, a sea lion that spent the summer out at the lab when we wanted puppies. Loser didn't do his job, but he was cute and I miss him.
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Defenestration: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window.
Vocabulary is FUN.
Also, I love the comics you have.
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Thank you, and aye, it is a fantastic word, defenestration.
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I love Morgan! And now we'll all fear your herring, so we will never ever get sea lions and seals mixed up.
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*threatens with a fish* You better not.
Though I am aware that you east coasters have no pinnepeds in your waters, and that's sad. 
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HERRING!! XD
You already know why I love this... the fuzzy up-in-yo-face otter on the end panel is so grand. I should print this out and leave it in the animation department so that people dont go to the zoo and think "SEALS!" -_-
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Adorable new icon...
Look again, I had to upload a better version of this, forgot to make it apparent it was a camcorder filming it...
You like Morgan, do ya? Well, he likes you too. He practices hard at being cute, when he's not playing videographer.
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Bit of random knowledge.....if you beat someone with a raw fish it's called cornobbling. Interesting, no?
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Really? 
I didn't know it was that common of an occourance to warrent its own word.
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The things you learn from 13 year old cousins......LOLs.....yeah, I was pretty shocked when I found out. I didn't even know people would do such things. Now, however, I use it as a threat as often as I can. And nobody knows what I'm threatening them with, so they're even more frightened.
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