[CINC] Steller Sea Lion(s) at Ventura

[Anthony Lombardi]

Hopefully this rain list is getting that ticky tacky on common grammar mistakes as to sightings reports. Hopefully this was in good fun. but if not...  Maybe email that person personally instead of on the entirety of the rain list, that seems more fair and appropriate.  Yes the Steller sea lions are also called northern sea lion but that is not what is they are stillcommonly called.  Check these sites for that fact, even an organization that you do work with denotes Stellers as the primary name over the northern sea lion. 

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/steller-sea-lion/

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/pinnipeds/stellersealion.htm

http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/steller-sea-lion/
Just keeping it real.
Anthony



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 From: Lee Fleischer <captlee48 at aol.com>
To: channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org 
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 5:50 PM
Subject: [CINC] Steller Sea Lion(s) at Ventura
 

Since we have been notingat least one of thespecies Eumetopias jubatus now commonly called 'northern sea lion' in the Ventura area; I'd thought I'd point out that Georg Wilhiem Steller would probably appreciate (albeit from the grave) having his name spelled correctlywhen we observe the largest of the sea lions originally described by the German botanist in 1741 when he sailed with the Russian explorer Vitus Bering to what we now know as Alaska.  

So let's make it Steller; no 'a'.

Thanks!


Lee Fleischer 
captlee48 at aol.com 
805.452.4338 (cell) 
 
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - George Carlin


 
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