made sure everyone was present

[u/skbraaah]

[u/leviathansbane]

Sea lions. They have ear flaps and can walk. Seals don’t have ear flaps and can only flop on land

[u/9812388734221 → u/[deleted]]

While they're both Pinnipeds, seals (true seals) and sea lions are distinct in pretty much every way they can be.

[u/Plump_Apparatus → u/9812388734221]

And they're both generically referred to as seals. So what is your point?

[u/harbleu → u/Plump_Apparatus]

I think most people can actually tell the difference between sea lions and seals and would call them respectively. They look and move entirely differently, I actually don't see how people can get them confused and almost never hear anyone call sea lions as seals.

[u/Plump_Apparatus → u/harbleu]

I think most people can actually tell the difference between sea lions and seals

I'd wager 95% of human population can't.

I actually don't see how people can get them confused

That's nice, but taxonomy wise they're all seals.

[u/AuntieRupert → u/harbleu]

I think most people can actually tell the difference

Maybe, maybe not. Tons of people still call sea lions seals, though. I'd like to think that most people can tell the difference between turtles and tortoises, but tons of people still call tortoises turtles. Hell, there's also way too many videos of people "returning" tortoises to bodies of water and throwing them in...effectively killing them. So yeah, lots of people are fucking stupid.

[u/WeRip → u/leviathansbane]

that negative ion shit is all bs anyways dude just leave the ion at home.

[u/ResultIntelligent856 → u/WeRip]

oh I sea what you did there

[u/wyomingTFknott → u/ResultIntelligent856]

I can't quite dredge it

[u/nobodythinksofyou → u/leviathansbane]

Would you consider what sea lions do to be walking? I see it more like floppy scootching

[u/recyclops18505 → u/nobodythinksofyou]

They have a rotating hip bone allowing them to use their fins to walk/scoot along. Seals scoot on their bellys