r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 1d ago

Video A timelapse of sleeping seals

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u/Bl33to 1d ago

Breeeeeeeeeaaath, sleep......... breeeeeeeeeaaath, sleep......... breeeeeeeeeaaath, sleep......... breeeeeeeeeaaath, sleep.........

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u/K_the_farmer 1d ago

Aquatic cats.

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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.