Enough to make an atheist a believer.
That was very heroic of the guy to react that quickly. He likely saved her life.
Not a good idea to feed sea lion bulls.
However, I have had great times swimming with sea lions in the Pacific. They are very playful, but on land when a bull is protecting his harem, they can be aggressive.
That is a huge wild animal with unpredictable behavior.
Feeding it was the first mistake. Coaxing it out of the water, the 2nd.
The total stupidity of some folks just never ceases to amaze me.
Thank God that little girl and the guy that saved her are ok.
Who would have thought? Feeding a 500 pound carnivore close up could lead to trouble? What if it was just a plain “lion” and not a “sea lion?”
Those people are absolute idiots.
First feeding the sea lion, and once the sea lion came out of the water, they let the little girl sit on the edge of the pier.
Cuddly cute fuzzy sea lion, who in days gone by attacked commercial fishermens’ nets - ripping the fish out and leaving pieces, and thus receive a load of double ought buck saving lives and livelihoods.
Yes people the wild in wild animal means something. Who didn’t see that coming?
Looks like the family ran off without thanking the rescue man. Pretty scary for them, though.
But see how cute it looked?
That little girl came very close to being torn apart. Lucky she was moving away and the sea loin only got her dress.
THANK YOU for sharing that. My daughter and I watched it a few times. She will THINK VERY HARD before feeding a seal. We love seals. We can love them from a proper distance.
Wow what a bunch a dummies.
Only one way to get a human skin coat for the missus.
I’m so surprised!
That an animal called a Sea-LION could be capable of this. After all this wild male is only about 8 ft long and 800+ lbs. And just because they are carnivorous, have large, sharp teeth and can open their mouth wide enough to get that little girl’s whole head inside is no reason to think that Mother Nature would let anything bad happen. </sarcasm>
Stupid games. Stupid prizes.
Thankfully she was ok. Whomever was in charge of that little girl deserves inspection. Not moving your child back after the first rearing up is child endangerment
Stupid city folks. LOL.
I had the opportunity to snorkel with some half-grown sea lions in the Galapagos a few years back, and they were delighted to have new friends to cavort with. One popped up to the surface when I did, and doing kept doing back-flips. I tried a flip of my own, and the young pinniped was amazed. He dove under water and grabbed one of my flippers in his mouth.
I decided that was enough fun, and returned to the panga, but there wasn't a mark on the flipper.