The New Zealand sea lion is a large predator from the family of eared seals. It lives only off the coasts of New Zealand and nearby islands and is distinguished by its dark fur and powerful body.
The New Zealand sea lion is distinguished from other sea lions by the shape of its head and the dark coloration of adult males. It is important for nature as a predator that helps maintain the balance of marine animals off the coasts of New Zealand.
homogamy, reproduction always with fertilization, no alternation of generations
Immature form that undergoes metamorphosis before adulthood.
Whiskers count
Worker
birth time
Submerges underwater to reach prey or food at depth.
Pelagic Ocean
penguins
breeding
very cold, short summer, lots of moss
Dogs, dolphins, lynx hang out for 9-25 years and party on their birthday three times a year
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Map
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Polar tundra
t
When your next jubilee falls in {name} life years
Human
days
marine pelagic
live octopuses, squids
How old you would be if you lived as {name}
Theoretical maximum lifespan estimated from the Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) mathematical model. This value reflects a biological potential derived from metabolic parameters, not from direct observation — real recorded lifespans are often significantly shorter.
adult
Maturity
cephalopods
marine benthic
About health
marine coastal
milk
When your next birthday would fall if you lived as {name}
Sofa
Repro interval
results
Eyes count
Colors
Sex
Upcoming jubilees
Gremllins
diving
mo
Teeth color
live fish
all seas and oceans
Trophic type
Filters
Upcoming birthdays
eggs, roe or offspring develop in a nest built on the ground or close to it
Truly long lives: 40-100 years. Bowhead whales, albatrosses, giant tortoises recall their birthday at most once a year
Lifespan
nest on the ground
young are born live on land, not hatched from eggs or roe
Age (juvenile)
Age (from birth to death)
Age (embryo)
Wanderers
far from shore, deep water, large whales and sharks live here
world of Australasia
Jubilee = every 10th birthday
marine coastal demersal
Earliest developmental stage inside an egg or womb.
Business sausages
Lifespan average
water is almost always cold, there may be ice in winter, not hot in summer
nest located directly on the ground surface on land, only the mother provides parental care for the offspring
in a terrestrial nest
young after fast growth
Whiskers size
Juvenile stage following larval metamorphosis but not yet adult.
live birth
live octopuses
What do they look like?
Maturity
emergence (insects)
end of lifespan
birds
How do they live?
fertilization / egg laying
How do they behave?
birth / hatching
metamorphosis / end of larval stage
fish
end of acceleration
the upper illuminated layer of the sea, 0–200 meters
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Mature, fully developed individual capable of reproduction.
Cold sea
very cold, lots of snow and ice
Actively hunting and capturing live prey.
Pets
{name} jubilee
cm
Old-timers
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Flippers count
turns
islands and part of Australia, many unusual animals and plants
Rascals
drink mother's milk in childhood
Abyssal Ocean
Teeth size
Litter size
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
How to care for them?
Living from 25 to 40 years. Orangutans, bald eagles, African elephants celebrate their birthday twice a year
°C
Not specified
the sea is covered with ice most of the year or has many ice floes, very cold in winter
diving
pelagic zone — open water far from shore and seabed
Where are they found?
Species lacks any fixed or lasting shelter structure.
Whiskers color
Legendary longevity: over 100 years. Galapagos tortoises, Greenland sharks, ocean quahogs celebrate with family once every 4 years
Offspring
Elders
Bro
Very cold
normal sexual
Taxons
carnivore
if born as {name}
cold, short summer, almost no trees
age
birth date
no permanent shelter
rest
Fur color
Close
was
Career from 7 to 15 months. Dwarf hamsters, voles, field crickets celebrate their birthday twice a month
marine epipelagic
The basics
My weight?
demersal biotope of coastal marine waters
octopuses
Non-stop carnival: they only live a few days. Mayflies, rotifers, midges celebrate their birthday more than twice a day
primary food sources
after transformation until death
Potential Habitat
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In husbandry
On the go from 1.3 to 3.5 years. Forest mice, anoles, rainbow fish party on their birthday once a month
Mass
Mosquitoes, fruit flies, small crustaceans hustle for up to 7 months and throw a birthday party every week
Gestation
islands and part of Australia, many unusual animals and plants
land
{name} birthday
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very deep, dark and cold, strange fish live here
Eyes color
live birds
On the map
all life stages
Female ♀
nest located directly on the ground surface on land
150 to 300 kilograms, 1.6 – 4 meters
Map data sources: Ecosystem classification — IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology (Keith et al., 2022), indicative distribution maps Keith et al. (2020), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3546513; Large Marine Ecosystems — NOAA LME Program; Bathymetry — GEBCO Bathymetric Compilation Group (2026), GEBCO_2026 Grid, https://doi.org/10.5285/4f68d5c7-45eb-f999-e063-7086abc036fa; Climate data — Generated using Copernicus Climate Change Service information; Species occurrence data — GBIF.org, Derived dataset "all animals", https://zveriki.com/dataset/dataset.tsv; Terrestrial ecoregions — RESOLVE Ecoregions 2017 (Dinerstein et al., 2017), CC BY 4.0
Potential habitat modelled from GBIF occurrence data. Map © Zveriki.com, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
birth year
Shelter used specifically for reproduction or nesting.
Maturity
sq mm
yr
benthic zone — the bottom of the open sea
How similar?
squids
Male ♂
until the celebration
baby / chick
Tundra
age as {name}
How do they breed?
On the go from 3.5 to 6 years. Hedgehogs, crows, lizards treat themselves to birthday snacks 6 times a year
What if eaten?
octopuses
Neither
from birth to adulthood
Young offspring still dependent on parental care.
squids
caring mother
What do they eat?
Where do they live?
Immature individual that has not yet reached reproductive maturity.
Marine world
early young
Flippers color
Duration
fish
saline marine habitat
Flippers size
This is me
Mane color
Gamers
molting
Teeth count
How are they built?
marine
shallow near the shore, water rises and falls, crabs live here
mm
Theoretical lifespan
ml
Stars
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coastal marine zone — shelf, neritic zone
My age?
wk
My size?
Asexual
swap
Subpolar sea
active predation
Rabbits, falcons, red-eared turtles hang out for 6-9 years and party on their birthday four times a year
Where do they take shelter?
inhabit and develop on land, outside water bodies
celebrated their {n} birthday
When you would have been born if you lived as {name}
live squids
Littoral Zone
Daddies
Lifespan maximum
world of Australasia
Hermaphrodite ⚥
embryo
Length
kg
Observations
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