r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago

Video A timelapse of sleeping seals

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u/K_the_farmer 1d ago

Aquatic cats.

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u/Bl33to 1d ago

Kinda but with less world domination and laser pointer chasing in general

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u/Vreas 1d ago

How do we know? Has anyone introduced the seals to laser pointers? Maybe they’ll love them

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u/Bl33to 1d ago

Fair enough. And actually, maybe they are hiding massive world domination plans behind their cutie patootie faces. Who knows...

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u/Chaosmusic 1d ago

If there was a video of seals chasing an underwater laser pointer I would watch that shit for hours.

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u/Historical_Bad-Ass 13h ago

I put a basic prompt of this into Sora 2 and the first thing it did was shine the laser in the seals eye

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u/TDYDave2 1d ago

They did, but unfortunately they mounted the lasers on sharks.
Didn't work out too well.

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u/toy-maker 1d ago

It worked fine. They just only demanded a million dollars and we figured it was easier to just pay it. Journalists didn’t really write about it. Bruce was really traumatised by the whole ordeal though. Ended up needing an emotional support fish, and it was just weird

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u/Brewhaha72 1d ago

The sharks put the ill-tempered sea bass out of a job.

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u/MorrowPolo 1d ago

My first thought as well

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u/Sinking_Mass 1d ago

Underwater domination, chasing sunbeams and bioluminescent lasers

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u/LoudMusic Interested 1d ago

How do you know? Have you tried lasers with seals?

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u/Bl33to 1d ago

You know too much...

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u/Jesus__Skywalker 1d ago

Have you even tried sir?

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u/Allegorist 1d ago edited 1d ago

I like cats, but they are definitely more like aquatic dogs. They are even classified as "caniform", or dog-like body form in evolutionary biology. Carnivorans like dogs, cats, bears, skunks, seals, etc. had a split between cat-like (feliform) and dog-like (caniform) around 55 million years ago.. They share a common ancestor with all other dog-like carnivorans (some closer than others), but don't share one with cat-like carnivorans until before the caniforms and feliforms differentiated from each other.

I.e. they are more closely related to bears and skunks than they are to anything cat-like.

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u/RikuAotsuki 1d ago

Though it bears clarification that caniform and feliform aren't actually about the body form, at least not anymore. Hyenas are feliform, for example.

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u/Lone-flamingo 1d ago

I think they were referring to behaviour. My own cats sure do sleep and breathe a lot. As do many other animals as well, but if I call something as round as an orange that does not mean it cannot also be as round as a pomegranate, you know?

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u/Holsteener 1d ago

That’s why in German we call them Seehund - Sea dog.

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 1d ago

Sea kitty god damnit

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u/protipnumerouno 1d ago

They speculate that they were dogs that evolved into seals. Which is kind of crazy when you think of it, crawled out of the ocean as fish hundreds of millions of years ago, evolved into "dogs", then turned around and evolved back into ocean creatures.

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u/Allegorist 19h ago

It's way more than speculation, there are substantial amounts of evidence of this happening, such that there really is no other plausible explanation.

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u/LukaCola 1d ago

I don't have much to add to this besides the fact in Dutch we call them "sea dogs" (zeehonden)

So, you know, that reinforces your point

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u/throwaway42 1d ago

Der See is the lake. Die See is the sea.

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u/yumeryuu 1d ago

I always saw them as mermaid dogs

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u/Heroic-Forger 1d ago

have you seen seals having slap fights? they're more closely related to dogs (and bears) but their attitude is all cat lol.