Back to Ultimate Scavengers: they just showed Jackals feeding on baby sea lions. How do I know this? Sea lions are adept at "WALKING" on land, unlike seals, which must "AWKWARDLY FLOP ABOUT" due to their "LACK OF LOW-SET LONG FEET IN FRONT" and "POSESSION OF A SINGLE TAIL-TYPE UNIT USELESS FOR FORWARD PROPULSION ON LAND IN BACK."
You'd think Animal Planet would get the difference between the two correct...
[Edit] Okay, fine. There are eared beings and earless beings within the pinniped group. Earless seals, which is what I think of as seals and are also known as "true seals," and eared seals, some of which are (rightly) called sea lions and others of which (the fur seals) are blessed with the seal misnomer. They should be called sea lions. Why would you create a separate familial classification, then retain an improper name?
Stupid biologists.
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