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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Mammal #2

Sea Lion

The sea lion is a brown torpedo shaped mammal. It is shaped as a torpedo so that it can swim fast in the watter but also move on land easly.
They can stay under watter up to 40 minuts without taking a breath. They swim up to 25 mi an hour. They are near sighted animals but see better under watter. They live up to 18 years. Females come to shore with a large male of their pick to give birth. They carry the pup for about 11 months then give a live birth. Pups can wiegh up to 50lb at birth and grow up to 200lbs and 6ft long in a single year. Males weigh up to 1500 to 1 tonand 12ft long. Females weigh up to 700lbs and 9ft long. They feed on small fish.

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