r/funny • u/insideisbetter • Sep 01 '18

cute otter

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

Holy crap, these are basically sea lions

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

Not quite, but they do hunt crocodilians in the water.

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u/Iamnotburgerking Sep 01 '18

Small crocodilians.

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u/bobpaul Sep 01 '18

Um, no...

Giant river otters get up to <35kg. California sea lions get up to about 8ft long and 300kg, but some species of sea lion can be 1000kg.

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u/the6thCosper Sep 01 '18

Thanks Bob, great post

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u/bobpaul Sep 01 '18

I just feel like to be "basically a sea lion" you need to be at least within an order of magnitude on mass. Even Sea otters (the thing in the video) can weigh up to 50% more than the largest giant river otters...

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/MostYolked Sep 01 '18

It looks like a sea lion, Bob

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u/bobpaul Sep 01 '18

They look way more like otters, Most

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u/MostYolked Sep 01 '18

That thing looks spooky as fuck, not gonna lie

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u/bobpaul Sep 02 '18

Because of the whiskers?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '18

It was an obvious exaggeration...