Berlin – A male sea lion from California called Mike has died of exhaustion after over-exerting himself during the mating season in an animal park in Nuremberg, Germany, the city said on Tuesday. The 19-year-old father of 12 offspring through three different females – Farah, Tiffy and Soda – showed signs of tiredness at around midday on Monday, the southern city said in a statement.
“Mike could no longer get out of the pool and was brought ashore by staff. The extremely weakened animal was treated by a vet but died from acute heart failure around 15:30 (1330 GMT),” it said. ”Mating season is a common time for fatalities when bulls often stop eating for days to devote themselves fully to mating. For sea lion bulls with a harem this is the most exhausting time,” it noted.
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Mj. died around the same time in the afternoon and of heart failure, you don´t suppose that he errr, nahhh
´´sorry, slaps self real hard´´
poor females!
Further to Libino’s comment, I wonder if Mike was frothing at the mouth and blowing bubbles at the end?
Well, if you gotta go sometime I guess this is as good a way as any to check-out.
Must sound like heaven for a lot of guys .. mating season … harem … and that you can even die from exhaustion due to heavy mating …
Oh well .. the oldies here can never do that … their equipment will just not work .. so they wont even get to exhaustion .. Yes, only once can be enough but then lots of other stuff could have done the trick as well.
I dont know how old sea lions get .. but let’s hope it had a nice full life and ended due to one of the activities he loved the most.
@libino and gaz…you filthy monkeys.
at least he went out doing what he loved.
“He will be remembered fondly by visitors of the animal park …”
also by the sea lionesses.
quoth my friend upon receiving the news, “That’s why you have to be careful about blowing a seal.”