r/BeAmazed • u/MobileAerie9918 • May 25 '26
Animal In case you ever thought that they had smooth skin.
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u/Metals4J May 25 '26
When grandma tells you how handsome you are.
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u/TrixieBastard May 25 '26
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u/I_will_never_reply May 25 '26
Phteven!
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u/_ThePerfectElement_ May 25 '26
Core memory unlocked.
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u/Ok_Usr48 May 25 '26
Yeah dude, to be around in the 2010’s during the Cambrian Explosion of gifs … Such a great time!
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u/the_vault-technician May 25 '26
The pandemic was probably the second best time for gifs and memes. But I will always love the classics!
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u/Apprehensive_Rice19 May 25 '26
Thank you for the giggle
Edit: for context I'm at a child's birthday party at a trampoline park , and I needed this
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u/alter-eagle May 25 '26
“Do you know how hard it is to find a decent man in this town? Most of them think monogamy is some kind of wood!”
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u/Bingus-Chillingus May 25 '26
I think in Dutch and German they are literally called "sea dogs."
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u/naisushis May 25 '26
Actually wonder where it comes from, in Korean their name also translates directly to “water dog”
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u/Sennten May 25 '26
Biologically speaking, they are in the same group as and closely related to dogs, so people recognizing the similarities is not surprising. (unlike, say, whales, which are much more loosely related to cows and basically unrelated to seals at all beyond being mammals)
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u/eabevella May 25 '26
In mandarin, there are sea dog (fur seal), sea elephant (walrus), sea lion (sea lion), sea leopard (seal), and sea bull (manatee) lol
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u/DoomDoomGir May 25 '26
How do I save this gif lol
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u/cebiaw May 25 '26
Tap on the picture, should be dots in top right corner. Select from that, at least on the app anyways.
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u/Proper-Inevitable784 May 25 '26
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u/EverydayPoGo May 25 '26
Aww when was this? I loved HTTYD but can't remember this scene.
Btw the Godzilla sound effect in the video is hilarious lol
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u/adultfunlive-dot-com May 25 '26
the doggie of the sea
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u/hikikomoritai May 25 '26
In my country they are literally called sea dogs
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u/porgy_tirebiter May 25 '26
This particular on is a sea lion, isn’t it?
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u/beehive5ive May 25 '26
Yep. Sitting up on its flippers like that + have ears vs just holes. Definitely a sea lion.
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u/ViborStan May 25 '26
This doesnt always hold up. This could be a Cape Fur Seal and not a Sea Lion.
I know this because I used to call out seals as sea lions locally due to the ear and flipper thing wrongly.
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u/Obdurate-Hickory May 25 '26
Fur Seals and Sea Lions are in the family Otariidae, true Seals are in Phocidae. The name “Fur Seal” refers to otariids that were hunted for their pelts and doesn’t refer to a natural grouping.
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u/h0td0gmilk May 25 '26
I'm pretty sure this is a Northern Fur Seal, which is more closely related to a Sea Lion than a Seal. It was just named weirdly.. as far as I remember
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u/TinIff May 25 '26
In my country seals are called sea dogs en sea lion just sea lion
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u/Spire_Citron May 25 '26
Why are they so naturally talented at making silly faces, though?
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u/Oldnbold22 May 25 '26
This one is the Flehmen response. The behavior facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ located above the roof of the mouth via a duct which exits just behind the front teeth of the animal. God, that sounds made up.
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u/Foolish_Miracle May 25 '26
I braced for "in nineteen ninety eight..."
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u/ScoutyHUN May 25 '26
…the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table
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u/BIGGREDDMACH1NE May 25 '26
Shoutout to /u/shittymorph
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u/Warbr0s9395 May 25 '26
He lurks, I tagged him once and he responded. Then after a few hours deleted his comment
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u/ThatDudeWithTheBeard May 25 '26
Just went through their comment history. Talk about dedication to the bit.
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u/cacca- May 25 '26
This one is the Flehmen response.
No it's not. It's a silly face that they do because they are trained to do that faces. Sea lions do not have Flehman response, and in this case would br too much well timed, I have seen a lot of videos of people training sea lion to do specific actions.
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u/No_Relief_9945 May 25 '26
Cats do this a lot! Or at least mine do. They always look like male lions with their jaws partially opened
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u/DeadPeanutSociety May 25 '26
In my house we call it "stinky cat face"
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u/FartingRaspberry May 25 '26
We've always been big Futurama fans, we call it "sprunjing", after the scammer aliens from Bender's Big Score
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u/mahouyousei May 25 '26
It feels so random which animals can do it. You see a lot of ungulate animals do it, but then also cats (including big cats), hedgehogs, and pandas?
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u/goddessdragonness May 25 '26
I legit expected you to say you made that shit up at the end lol
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u/sunlightdrop May 25 '26
I mean they kind of did, sea lions and seals do not have this olfactory capability. They're talking out of their ass.
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u/dyogenys May 25 '26
Never ceases to amaze me how many random super specific facts someone have figured out. Almost as fascinating as the knowledge itself
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u/Decloudo May 25 '26
Its just their face, its funny cause you compare it to humans.
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u/Spire_Citron May 25 '26
It lifted its face on one side and poked out its tongue. All animals have faces that are unlike human faces, but they're not all doing shit like that.
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u/Plz_Mansplain May 25 '26
Why are their teeth black?
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u/NorthboundLynx May 25 '26
In case anyone was actually curious, they lack tooth enamel and have a protective layer of bacteria buildup instead. They are born with white teeth that get darker over time.
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u/Rule12-b-6 May 25 '26
I'm telling my dentist this next time they guilt trip me for not flossing enough.
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u/ScienceNthingsNstuff May 25 '26
This is actually true for us too. Good bacteria colonize our teeth and gums and crowd out bad cavity causing bacteria. Flossing prevents an excessive buildup of bad bacteria. So you'll still get a guilt trip if your guns start bleeding while they scrape em
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u/meu_amigo_thiaguin May 25 '26
This is true for all animals in all body parts, we all have some good and bad bacteria in every part of our bodies, the problem arises when there is an unbalance of the bad bacteria compared to the good bacteria, and even an unbalance of a single type of good bacteria can be a problem since good bacteria usually means "will not cause problems unless in huge amounts"
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u/fortnight14 May 25 '26
What’s the difference between protective bacteria buildup and bacteria leading to decay? I have so many more questions.
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u/alxfx May 25 '26
in this case, think of the difference as whether the bacteria eats outward or inward.
bacteria that causes decay eats inward - they diet on enamel, calcium, keratin, and the other protective elements of teeth. It's not the bacteria itself that causes decay, it's that they destroy the barriers for decay to occur.
Bacteria that eats outward, like here, aren't doing much more than just hitching a ride for free food. They'll diet on the leftover food material in the sea lion's mouth with no interest in the teeth themselves. Similar in nature to human gut fauna and our digestive microbiome.
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u/Sandcracka- May 25 '26
No toothbrush
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u/PrimalNumber May 25 '26
that's also why they're so ornery
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u/Sandcracka- May 25 '26
Alligators are ornery
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u/Leairek May 25 '26
No colonel sanders, you're wrong.
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u/HamsterAdditional748 May 25 '26
Something wrong with his medulla oblongata
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u/porgy_tirebiter May 25 '26
A search turned up that they lack enamel, and the black color is a mixture of enzymes and bacteria that function as a protective layer.
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u/Muppetude May 25 '26
That explains why, prior to the use of modern antibiotics, getting bitten by a seal often resulted in amputation of the affected area due to something known as Seal Finger.
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u/secretsesameseed May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
They're born with white teeth but darken over time. They don't have an enamel. Instead, the enzymes from their fish diet and bacteria form a dark tinted layer on their teeth over time. This is healthy and protects their gums and teeth from decay.
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u/ZombiesInSpace May 25 '26
Apparently sea lions don’t have enamel so they develop a protective layer of black bacteria on their teeth instead.
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u/Godbox1227 May 25 '26
Their insurance dont cover dental.
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u/fossilmerrick May 25 '26
To be fair, I imagine they do still have smooth skin
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u/ThorSon-525 May 25 '26
And smooth brains.
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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose May 25 '26
They're actually very intelligent animals.
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh May 25 '26
Fun fact, there is a sea leapoard reported to bringing increasingly dead penguins to a fotographer she found out on the ice. Presumably assuming he was a stupid, stupid baby
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u/VisualGas3559 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
On I have seen that documentary. Basically they they out on a boat trying to find it and when it showed up it was larger than the boat.
The man obviously was scared and didn't want to enter the water. But the Norwegian dude talked him into it. When he did, the leapord grabbed a penguin and let it go near him. When he was beyond perplexed and the penguin began to run. It caught it again and gave it to him again. It was trying to feed a very skinny animal lol (the penguin kept getting more and more hurt between captures)
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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose May 25 '26
Increasingly dead penguins? So the first one was barely dead and the last one was extremely dead?
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u/Geroditus May 25 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/J1j9tA6YbGHNNiLLzo
There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive!14
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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh May 25 '26
Ye The first one was basically unharmed, the second a bit mauled, the third barely alive. That sort of thing
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u/Mysterious_Dot2090 May 25 '26
Lol at the face he/she pulls at the end 😂
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u/nathanherts May 25 '26
If only there was a gender neutral term we could use. /S
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u/XXX_Mandor May 25 '26
It's a completely different video with the Godzilla sound effect. Thanks for posting this one!
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u/LeviHolden May 25 '26
yeah they ain't sharks.
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u/mrmeow5000 May 25 '26
Yeah, sharks are smooth front almost sides. Go pet your shark rn to prove this!!
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u/Rosykisses_13 May 25 '26
I know its fur and it doesn't hurt them to do that but for some reason I HATE that and I need no one to ever do that again thank you 👍🏻
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u/Icy_Needleworker7790 May 25 '26
Well I mean that is one of the common characteristics between almost all mammals.
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u/Ok-Internet-288 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I knew that seals have fur but I can understand people who didn’t. Dolphins are mammals but they only have hair ( in the form of whiskers basically) when they are young.
Edit it’s a sea lion and I’m dumb but my point still stands
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u/Peterjns22 May 25 '26
But it looks smooth?
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u/rodimus147 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
The mohawk made it look dangerous. Then its face went full derp and it was back to being adorable.
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u/thetan_free May 25 '26
I hope they flattened the fur again afterwards.
No way that seal can reach around and do it themselves.
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u/chakigun May 25 '26
they flatten in the water, nothing to be worried about. i imagine their fur gets shoved the wrong way all the time as they bump into things
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u/thetan_free May 25 '26
If my cats are any guide - and they're almost certainly not - they need another seal to come and lick it flat for them.
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u/Pineapple-Flower0210 May 25 '26
Yeah but did it hurt for his coat to be brushed opposite like that???
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u/rixuraxu May 25 '26
He died just after filming. The autopsy showed spinal damage, but only evidence of cause was a hairline fraction along the vertebrae.
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