Posted on 04/10/2025 6:05:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The horde of “demonic” sea lions that attacked people off the California coast in recent weeks lashed out because they were sickened by mind-warping toxic algae, scientists have discovered.
The normally adorable ocean critters — who mauled a surfer and bit a swimmer — were reduced to a zombie-like state due to a neurological flare-up that caused confusion, seizures and panic, marine experts said.
The center tested hundreds of sea lions and found they suffered from the so-called “domoic acid toxicosis” from gobbling down fish exposed to the toxic bloom near the southern California shoreline.
At least 195 sea lions with the illness have been admitted to the center since late March, said Warner, who said they can recover with anti-seizure medications and sedation.
But the brain-bending condition often makes sea lions flip out with rage — like in the case of Rj LaMendola, who was dragged from his surfboard by a sea lion on March 21.
“It looked possessed,” LaMendola, 40, wrote later in Facebook post. “This creature looked like nothing I’d ever seen—its expression was feral, almost demonic, devoid of the curiosity or playfulness.”
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Hat tip to Dave Barry
195 sea lions admitted to some medical facility. Must be pretty expensive to treat them…
OK, “scientists,” now do Demonic Democrats.
Of course that is redundant. All Dems are Demonic these days.
It’s insane. These are not nice creatures to start with.
Sounds like they need an exorcist.
All that toxic sewage being sent up to us from Mexico.
Sea lions are lots of things, but “adorable” is not one of them.
The sea was angry that day my friends.
Kramer: Bad fish. Mess you up!
aquatic rabies
BUT they being in the sea.
When I lived in SF, I’d go down to the beach to watch them. A lot of people did.
“The sea was angry that day my friends”
I just knew Titleist Golf Balls were somehow involved!
There is also a good Walking Dead reference here. Maybe, the swimming dead?
Last time I was at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, crowds of tourists and visitors congregated a few yards away from the beach, where dozens of Sea Lions lay around, sunning themselves as they waited for snacks to be thrown by the crowds. I couldn’t get away fast enough.
That odor was awful. Like the biggest latrine in this hemisphere. I don’t find them at all fascinating.
They took the brown acid.
😂👍
Isn’t this what happened to all the birds off the CA coast years ago that Hitchcock based his movie The Birds on?
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