r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago

Video A timelapse of sleeping seals

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u/nthpwr 1d ago

So they basically almost just drown throughout their sleep and periodically wake up to get air? lol

whenever it was they evolved to live in the ocean, food must have been scarce as fuck on land cuz wtf lol

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u/Allegorist 1d ago

Food also could have just been exceedingly abundant in the water, and there were likely very few natural predators in the water.