Chordate cruelty!


Oh, no…it’s a video of a sea lion brutalizing an innocent cephalopod.

It looks like this was made by attaching a camera to a sea lion. Am I wicked for thinking the next video I want to see is a sea lion slowed down by the clumsy gadgetry on its back, getting chewed on by a shark?

Yes, I am taking sides!

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Comments

  1. kiyaroru says

    billygutter01 #1
    Puns are the lowest form of humour.
    Except when they are funny.

  2. Xenithrys says

    PZ: This video appear to load every time I open the Pharyngula home page or refresh it, which I usually do several times a day (many more if I’m following comments). I’ll likely use up a fair chunk of my monthly bandwidth allocation before this entry drops off the page. Or I could go without for a week and face Pharyngula withdrawal symptoms.
    Can you do something about it please?

  3. Tuxedo Cartman says

    Did anybody else have the music from the opening of The Naked Gun going through their heads as the sea-lion coasted along the bottom?

  4. scooterKPFT says

    That thing doesn’t look anything like a lion. It should be called a fat ocean dog or something.

  5. woozy says

    Am I wicked for thinking the next video I want to see is a sea lion slowed down by the clumsy gadgetry on its back, getting chewed on by a shark?

    Yes!!! It’s not the poor sea lion’s fault some bozo packed a bunch of clumsy gadgetry on its back. And it didn’t give the sea lion any unfair advantage over the octopus.

    Now, if you wanted to see a shark chew an *unimpeded* sea lion then you aren’t wicked. (just a little sick… well, maybe not…)

  6. woozy says

    Well, in the interest of fairness I tried to find a shark eating sea lion video but only got this killer whale eating sea lion one.

    If I had to choose sides, I’d have to choose the side whose barking lulled me to sleep when I was a child though…

  7. speedweasel says

    (Video moved below the fold because it seems to load every time the page is refreshed.)

    Try the Flashblock plugin for Firefox

  8. chuckgoecke says

    Ceviche de pulpo is really good, and I guess those Aussie sea lions know it.

  9. MolBio says

    Don’t worry PZ, those waters are shark infested. A few years ago a surfer got killed by not one, but 2 great whites.

  10. shonny says

    Posted by: MolBio Author Profile Page | April 11, 2010 3:21 AM

    Don’t worry PZ, those waters are shark infested. A few years ago a surfer got killed by not one, but 2 great whites.

    Jesus surfing? Thought he was supposed to walk on the water.
    But then again, great whites aren’t all that fussy.