Monday, April 27, 2015

From Vincent Manero #8



The Doss Family Seals

Posted by Buckles at 4/27/2015 05:55:00 AM

3 comments:

Jim Alexander said...

I've only seen this act on videos. It's a nice sea lion act performing the usual sea lion behaviors. To me the highlight is the good condition of the animals and their care. Like Marco Peters' set-up, the sea lions have a large pool. One video had a reporter in the pool with the animals being towed around like at a "swim with the dolphin" place.

27 April, 2015 07:01
Chic Silber said...


It seems that through the years

that Sea Lions have been billed

as Seals in the circus

27 April, 2015 12:17
Jim Alexander said...

Actually there's a pretty big difference between sea lions and fur seals (otarids) and true seals (phocids). Among other things, sea lions can rotate their hind flippers under their bodies and get around on land quite well, true seals scoot along on their bellies kind of like caterpillars. I could go on but as my wife would remind me, most people really don't care.

27 April, 2015 15:05

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