Talk:Sea lion

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Bettering the article, small grammatical changes
I took some information out of the Parasites and Diseases section that I felt was unnecessary. I made some grammatical fixes in the Parasites and Diseases section also. I then added in an endangerment section then filled in information because there was no information on whether or not sea lions are endangered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickmurphy72903 (talk • contribs) 04:08, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Endangerment
I don't see any citations regarding up to date information on whether or not sea lions are endangered. In the research I did, the only species of sea lion I was able confirm are endangered are "Western Stock Stellar Sea Lions" here: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=stellersealion.main

Does anyone have citations regarding these endangerments? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.98.15 (talk) 20:17, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Photo
The photo shows some true Earless seals (family Phocidae), not sea lions! - MPF 16:26, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
 * I haven't gone back to check when, however this has been corrected as of 2006. --TeaDrinker 22:03, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Speed on land
I removed the following sentence from the article:
 * Many are suprised by the fact that they can travel on land at up to 16 mph.

which was added by User:207.200.116.137 (talk • contribs). It seems quite fast to me, although I can't recall ever having seen a record of the speed, I have a hard time beliving this. Anyone have a source? --TeaDrinker 07:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

The name sea lion
I am missing on this page the reason why these animals are called sealion. Is it because of the manes wich the males of some species have, or is it the sound that they make (the last argument I found on a Dutch zoo website). Minataurus (talk) 12:22, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

They are called sea lions because the Stellar Sea Lions make a sound similar to a lion which gave them their name.

Harbor Seal Picture
The photo on the right hand side is a Harbor Seal and is labeled as such. While it is indeed a pinniped, it is not a sea lion. I find it somewhat amusing that when you click on the link under the picture it takes you to the harbor seal page where it is clearly listed as a true seal and a member of a different family than sea lions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.176.191.250 (talk) 04:47, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for noting this. The taxobox has been revised.  Eliezg (talk) 10:39, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Globalize
The picture selection is unbalanced. It shows only sea lions from the US. A the "globalize template" should be keept until this unrepresentative selection of pictures have been remediated. Dentren |  Ta lk  18:10, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

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Sea lion snatches a young girl from a pier
https://twitter.com/i/moments/866307356216446976

Another 'attack' to possible ad to the section?

Bunai (talk) 15:51, 21 May 2017 (UTC)

Parasites and Diseases
This section is a bit of a mess at the moment. At the very least it needs a copyedit. It also has a WP:SOAP tone to it, though it's not clear what the agenda is other than general ecofear. --Ef80 (talk) 15:44, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Interactions with humans section
The sentence in the first paragraph is highly doubtful, '... As a result, South American sea lions have been foraging at higher tropical altitudes than they did prior to human exploitation ...'. . 'Altitude' describes height above sea level. Those front flippers may seem large compared to seals, but not big enough to fly to higher altitudes. Someone is having a go a this page. This should be corrected/clarified. . BGriffin (talk) 04:37, 11 July 2017 (UTC)BGriffin

Parasites and diseases section
Someone needs to do a bunch of work here, as it was clearly written by someone with a poor grasp of English, and has a number of problems stemming from that fact. There are entire sentences where it's unclear what is being discussed.Demigord (talk) 19:20, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Recent photo additions
As these span a number of articles: please discuss recent photo additions by at User_talk:SpaceMusk. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

diet, hunting
There doesn't seem to be anything here about what sea lions eat or how they hunt or fish. In the intro there's reference to the amount they eat, and elsewhere there's a mention of toxins ingested through eating sardines or other fish. Anyone have any info on their diet and fishing habits? --Drnoam (talk) 15:56, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Try these


 * Weise, M. J., & Harvey, J. T. (2008). Temporal variability in ocean climate and California sea lion diet and biomass consumption: implications for fisheries management. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 373, 157-172.
 * Drago, M., Crespo, E. A., Aguilar, A., Cardona, L., García, N., Dans, S. L., & Goodall, N. (2009). Historic diet change of the South American sea lion in Patagonia as revealed by isotopic analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 384, 273-286.
 * Garcia-Rodriguez, F. J., & Aurioles-Gamboa, D. (2004). Spatial and temporal variation in the diet of the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Fishery Bulletin, 102(1), 47-62.
 * Dondervogel 2 (talk) 19:24, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

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