Interesting article in The Guardian:
Experience: I was nearly drowned by a sea lion
What Trish hadn’t seen was that at the moment she said “Smile!” a sea lion had leapt about 7ft out of the water to get the fish, and grabbed my left hand in the process. Sea lions have canine teeth, just like a dog. It dragged me headfirst into the water. I’d actually seen it out of the corner of my eye a split second before I felt the pain. It was big and had such strength. It pulled me straight down to the bottom of the bay, about 25-30ft.
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Sea lions are so agile. I don’t buy the idea that it accidentally got my hand; I think it was angry and territorial. The supply of fish here is dwindling and their numbers are increasing – there’s not enough food for them all.
Quite a bit more there. Go read it, amazing survival and interesting incident for an animal many of us think of as “cute.”
Pity Colbert isn’t back on the air yet. I’d love to see his take on it.