Baby Sea Lions Use Sand as Sunscreen

Mar 11, 2018 5:09 AM

That last one is all ‘Ahhh it burns!!!’

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...and a base of sunscreen to make it stick.

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The horror it must be if it got into their eyes

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Churro of the Sea!

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Seals are basically dogs with flippers

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protect

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@ArmingTheBears look at them!!

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Wrong! that's a Wakanda hologram

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Goddamn those things are adorable

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Darude Sandscreen

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Breaded, not fried

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Better than using sun screen as sand

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Peppered seal

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thats why pigs wallow

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For one second my brain read this is as "thats why pigs swallow" and now Im grossed out.

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Elephants use dust/mud

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they are breadcrumb coating themselves for the orcas, how nice of them...

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Sandscreen

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What do they use for flipper lotion?

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Heh, they look breaded.

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Horses roll in the mud for the same reason. And to keep flies away.

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And to kill parasites in their coat. :) And to spite their owners.

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“I just had a bath and a brush, let’s make love to this random patch of mud and dirt!” - the horse, always

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Huh. Another thing I have in common with Sarah Jessica Parker.

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And pigs and elephants and so on. I think it’s a quite common method

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Missed a spot

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I don't like sand. It's coarse and gets everywhere.

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"That's what it's supposed to do!" - sea lion pup, probably

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That sand appears to be the coarsest sand I've ever seen.

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Tempura.

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Looks like the litter box

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@themajesticharpyeagle IIRC elephant seals do the same for the same reason

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Most pinnipeds in hot places do, no?

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Yep

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Isn't your cousin's sister also your cousin? Do you have pics?

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