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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)


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[edit] Sea Lions: Enemy of the State?

It's about time this article addresses how Sea Lions have been endangering the Chinook salmon population in the Pacific Northwest. As a fisherman myself, they are causing a great financial strain on my family, even five years ago I used to collect more than enough Chinook to support my family, but because of Sea Lion protection I am lucky to catch one Chinook from the paws of these scavengers in a day. We don't protect people who eat spotted owls, so why should we give a free ride to Sea Lions? There's polenty of Karp in the sea, Mr. Sea Lion, plenty. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.203.50.129 (talk) 18:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC).

Talk page discussions are usually confined to how to improve the article, rather than commentary on the article's topic. I think the inclusion of information about sea lion interactions with fisheries may be relevant, although perhaps better suited to the specific species involved (probably California sea lion and to a much lesser extent, Steller sea lion). I don't know of quantitative estimates of the loss of salmon due to these species, but that would be important to find and cite. Of course any such addition would also have to conform to the neutral point of view policy. Thanks for the idea. --TeaDrinker 19:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Land speed

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 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)

[edit] Capitalization

Why is this at Sea Lion and not sea lion (small 'l'). Is "Sea Lion" a proper noun?--ZayZayEM 01:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Eccentricities of Wikipedia naming. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna), and then read the talk page. It was a big deal about a year ago; I don't know if anyone has really wanted to bring it up again recently. Some people feel strongly that all names should be caps. --TeaDrinker 02:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
      • Thanks--ZayZayEM 03:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expand

Someone put an expand tag on the article recently, and understandably so - since it is an uneven and stubby article. I did expand it somewhat, but since sea lion is a somewhat (though not entirely) arbitrary common name for several species within the Otariidae, most of the meaningful biological discussion is on that page and in the separate species pages. For comparison, note that in German, | Seelöwe is simply a disambiguation page. To that end, there is now a little common name/taxonomy clash tag (thanks to User:Verisimilus) leading the article. Best, Eliezg (talk) 11:51, 22 December 2007 (UTC)