TIL 12 desert lions living on the coast in Namibia are the only known lions to hunt marine prey (seals, cormorants, & flamingos). The average home range of a desert lion is around 12,000 sq km (4,600 sq mi), whereas, the typical home range of a lion on the Serengeti is around 100 sq km (39 sq mi).

164 points IrohTheUncle

No tuna on the coast of Namibia, I guess.

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57 points hello_europa

They just haven’t established their beachhead yet

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25 points 18433481

No kelp for breathing apparatus

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36 points SeekersWorkAccount

Guess they can't bang their tuna girlfriend's, either

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16 points ParagonSaint

Not enough kelp there to construct a breathing apparatus

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3 points Practical_Ad4604

Nah they just like Salmon like Hobbes

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77 points All_Hail_Dionysus

Just give it a few hundred thousand years and we’ll get a new cetacean

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56 points MirthMannor

Yeah, we can call them sea lio… fuck.

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16 points Denny_204

Salt Water Lion perhaps?

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20 points NBCMarketingTeam

Land sea lions. I tame them

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9 points CPT_Shiner

Oh, Mister Fry. You do go on!

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3 points wthulhu

Did it just get warmer?

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2 points NoHalfPleasures

I propose seal ions

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1 points TacTurtle

Ocean lions?

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25 points ashwinsalian

i guess the gir lions only chill by the coast and dont hunt any marine prey then?

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15 points SamtheCossack

I don't think there really are any seals in India. I am not sure what marine prey there really is to hunt.

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9 points ShatteredAnus

Misguided missionaries probably

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3 points mosehalpert

Looks like that small population eats mostly wild boar and Indian antelope. Although if we are considering cormorants as marine prey, I find it hard to believe gir lions dont eat any marine prey.

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16 points Billy1121

Are they roaming 4000 miles up and down the coast ??? It is only 977 miles

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9 points NBCMarketingTeam

Plus four miles inland

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1 points ToNoMoCo

It depends on how you measure it ... As it turns out these sea lions have very dainty feet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

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4 points Alashion

Give it a few million years, there will be Lion-whales.

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4 points Adthay

Sea-lions?

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3 points Africa_versus_NASA

Santiago still dreams of them

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7 points rawspeghetti

Reminds me of Kodiak brown bears, which mainly eats salmon off the Alaska coast and have grown to immense sizes. Their the largest bear on earth.

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2 points SamtheCossack

I am confused why it would kill 40 seals in one night. I thought lions didn't usually hunt when they were full.

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2 points OrangeSpaceMan5

I've read somewhere that animals can also show psychopathic and sadistic traits
Not sure if thats whats going on here tho

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1 points SamtheCossack

They can for sure, but most lions seem to get lazy and take a nap once they have eaten a lot, which presumably they would after the first seal.

I suppose maybe if they weren't hungry when they started killing seals they might keep doing it.

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2 points juiceyb

So this scene isn't too ridiculous after all.

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2 points reddit_user13

All you ca eat seafood buffet.

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1 points wytherlanejazz

Gotta do what you gotta do

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1 points chaldea_fgo

Ah, the sea.lion update is working and the land.lion is still functioning as normal. Good, very good.

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1 points spitonmydick

So the now endemic population of rabies off the coast of South Africa in their seal population could maybe even spread to lions elsewhere on the continent if the conditions were just right…

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1 points odin_the_wiggler

Sea lions²

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-8 points KingTootandCumIn_her

I posted the TIL about Mikey Burnett and they took my post down and are blocking me from posting on here? I have no idea why

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2 points geofowl66

Because Mikey was anti lions.

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1 points phdoofus

You should probably stop making this comment in every TIL posting before they just ban you entirely.

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