r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/Limp_Pressure9865 • 22h ago
🔥 A leopard seal and a southern elephant seal seem to disagree on who should keep the resting spot.
Credits to All.the.different.lives on Instagram.
•
u/CommonPay8724 22h ago
Two tons of pure stubbornness battling for prime beachfront property.
•
u/xxxmechashivaxxx 21h ago
Sounds like a typical day at a public Cali Beach.
•
u/Psychedelic_Jedi 17h ago
2 tons? Nah that's Florida Alabama territory
•
u/xxxmechashivaxxx 4h ago
I thought there was some black chick out in Cali called two ton. Want she the one who sure Uber?
•
•
u/Repulsive-Visit7443 18h ago
wonder if they ever get exhausted mid-battle and just take a nap in the middle of the fight
•
u/Head-Growth-523 22h ago
The elephant seal is like "just roll away skinny" 🤣
•
u/M7A1-RI0T 21h ago
“We’ve been over this Bill. You get nights and weekends and I get whenever I want”
•
•
u/cesam1ne 22h ago edited 22h ago
Lol, the way leopard seal rolls back while still trying to act tough, after realizing the elephant seal is completely unfazed.. cinema
•
u/MaMaximillian 22h ago
Elephant seal unbiased of what?
•
•
u/untoldletters 22h ago
Deeply unserious creatures
•
u/GandalfVirus 22h ago
I wouldn’t say that, Leopard seals genuinely terrify me.
Elephant seals though, I mean. Honk honk.
•
u/lia-delrey 21h ago
Leopard seals freak me OUT and I dont know why I'm so glad I'm not the only one
•
u/Own_Guarantee_8130 21h ago
It’s the teeth for me. They have the face of a CGI dinosaur.
•
u/TheJurri 21h ago
They look oddly reptilian for a mammal. They're almost serpentine in the water, yet larger than you'd expect. And that grin with their large, black voids pf eyes don't help.
I love them.
•
•
•
u/egomanick 17h ago
For me it's the "seals" contradiction. You hear the word and think left, and then there is mf on the right
•
u/12Fox13 15h ago edited 14h ago
Fun fact: They both aren’t true seals. 🤓I was absolutely wrong and shouldn’t comment when I’m high!•
u/egomanick 14h ago
Elaborate. Wiki says both leopard and Weddell seals belong to true seal tribe Lobodontini
•
u/12Fox13 14h ago
See my edit! Thank you for correcting me!
I’m not going to elaborate where I went wrong
•
u/egomanick 14h ago
Hey its alright man you got me curious. Its a finicky thing when the distinction between true seals and likes of fur seals is just that one family has ears
•
•
u/NightBawk 21h ago
They're basically furry water dinosaurs. They're also very fast and deadly hunters, and one drowned a marine biologist while she was out snorkeling.
•
u/GalDebored 21h ago
Because they have what amounts to alligator mouth!? Other than orcas, they're the the main apex predator found around Antarctica. There have even been a few recorded attacks on humans - one which resulted in the death of a biologist. They can absolutely be intimidating as hell!
•
u/Ubeube_Purple21 20h ago
Because all it takes to turn this blubber butt into Antarctica's polar bear knockoff is to give it legs.
•
•
u/AccurateSimple9999 20h ago
Leopard seals are basically useless on land, apart from threat gestures. They really don't want to bite you either way. Neither do elephant seals, but look at them, they're like whales that don't die when they strand.
•
u/koolaidismything 21h ago
The ones I grew up with in the Bay Area are like a really annoying rooster that never shuts up. But you won’t find a single person who acknowledges that after they become an adult cause after you see them and how they just sunbathe and play it’s like.. go for it guys.
•
u/jackalope268 21h ago
Elephant seals are much scarier to me. They might accidentally squish me with all that weight and leopard seals are kinda smart so if they attack you its probably on purpose
•
u/hymntastic 21h ago
I mean if you just walk slowly you can outpace an elephant seal on land. If you're getting squashed by the beachmaster it's probably on you.
•
•
u/ajabernathy 18h ago
Casual Geographic did a video on them https://youtu.be/QyLYAB5zk7E?is=JbkDhVnwsGpigkjU
•
u/Hexbug101 16h ago
Counterpoint though, they’ve tried to feed divers penguins, which is just so adorable, they would bring them mostly alive penguins at first and would grab them again after the diver didn’t take it to try again
•
u/GandalfVirus 13h ago
Ok that is in someway very cute and cat like although I think it would also be terrifying.
•
u/WinterWontStopComing 20h ago
Have you not seen the bloody mess that occurs when two male elephant seals fight?
•
u/black-knights-tango 16h ago
Yeah, an elephant seal is just a giant mancubus. Leopard seals are nightmare fuel
•
u/BonsaiOnSteroids 16h ago edited 13h ago
Elephant seals can move faster at a beach than the average human can sprint. You should totally be afraid of them as they will just kill you because you exist nearby. Not even for food.
•
•
u/ButtNutly 11h ago
According to a quick Google, elephant seals can move around 6mph on land, while the average human can run 12-15 mph in short bursts.
•
•
u/Betray-Julia 21h ago
These are two of the most violent and brutal creatures on earth.
Leopard seals are also up there on the intellgence scale.
•
u/MaynardButterbean 20h ago
Someone has never seen Pebble and the Penguin
https://giphy.com/gifs/13jzyPBhvmivZe
•
u/Semblance-of-sanity 22h ago
Yeah elephant seals are probably the only kind of seal that can win against lepord seals.
•
•
•
•
u/radlah_ateem 21h ago
Why they are on mute?
•
u/TenLongFingers 21h ago
For real I unmuted and was surprised they weren't screaming lol
•
u/radlah_ateem 21h ago
Yess, is they like communicate using brain?? Or some other energy? Or waves?? Omg thats so awesome
•
•
•
u/eltoratio 21h ago
The leopard seal seems smart enough to avoid losing its second flipper. Maybe it learned from another conversation.
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/TehluvEncanis 19h ago
Sometimes I roll away wailing dramatically, too, to give my husband space in the bed, lmao
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/LobstaFarian2 19h ago
Me and some random dude fighting over the last Krispy Kreme in the 7-11 donut case.
•
u/meister_reinecke 17h ago
I keep forgetting that leopard seals acutally exist... kinda terrifing beasts - but also a bit cute?
•
•
u/asdf0909 15h ago
Are these creatures just clear evolutionary inbetweeners that show us how sea creatures once dragged their asses onto land?
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/Lawlpaper 21h ago
Which one’s the elephant seal?
•
•
u/qualityvote2 22h ago edited 19h ago
u/Limp_Pressure9865, your post does fit the subreddit!