Nay
Contributor
I was watching something last night on the Great Whites at the Cape in South Africa and their food source down there are Cape Fur Seals.
They looks like sea lions to me.
The distinctions that I know are:
1) and eaiest, sea lions have visable ears
2) The body type of a seal is very () just sort of a blob with a bit of a neck but no hips really and not very graceful on land. Sea lions (I'm especially familiar with the CA sea lions and harbor seals) have "hips" which allow them to walk on their hind and fore fins on land. They're usually what you see in shows at Sea World like places and the image you think of when you think of the "seal" at the circus with the ball.
But the Cape Fur seals in South Africa have all of the physcial characteristics of the CA sea lion.
Does anyone know anything about the Cape Furs? Are my distinctions too generalized for my region?
Thanks
-R
They looks like sea lions to me.
The distinctions that I know are:
1) and eaiest, sea lions have visable ears
2) The body type of a seal is very () just sort of a blob with a bit of a neck but no hips really and not very graceful on land. Sea lions (I'm especially familiar with the CA sea lions and harbor seals) have "hips" which allow them to walk on their hind and fore fins on land. They're usually what you see in shows at Sea World like places and the image you think of when you think of the "seal" at the circus with the ball.
But the Cape Fur seals in South Africa have all of the physcial characteristics of the CA sea lion.
Does anyone know anything about the Cape Furs? Are my distinctions too generalized for my region?
Thanks
-R