The circus performer of the ocean - though sea lions are far more impressive in the wild than any ring! Our printable sea lion mask celebrates these intelligent, playful and highly social pinnipeds with their distinctive ear flaps and front flipper walk. Perfect for ocean school plays, coastal habitat classroom projects, World Book Day, birthday parties, and energetically bouncy imaginative play.

The sea lion is a brilliant subject for marine mammals and animal intelligence topics - their ability to learn complex tasks, respond to human gestures and even understand basic syntax puts them among the most cognitively impressive animals in the ocean. Every mask comes with a full colour version AND a black and white line art version for colouring in.

5 Interesting Facts About Sea Lions!

Sea lions can walk on land - unlike true seals, they have flexible hind flippers they can rotate forward to walk on all fours. This makes them far more mobile on land than the seal's belly-flop shuffle.
They are one of the few non-human animals shown to have a sense of rhythm - researchers at UC Santa Cruz trained a sea lion named Ronan to bob her head in time to music, including Earth, Wind & Fire.
California sea lions are used by the US Navy - trained to detect underwater mines and mark them with a clamp, and to locate and restrain swimmers in restricted areas. Their natural agility and intelligence make them more effective than any robot for many tasks.
Sea lions communicate through a complex system of barks, growls and body postures - colonies can be extraordinarily noisy, with thousands of individuals all communicating simultaneously.
A group of sea lions in the water is called a raft, and on land it's called a colony or rookery - breeding colonies can contain thousands of individuals packed together on rocky shores.

Printable Sea Lion Mask

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