I live a mile from the beach on the outskirts of the Hippie Ghetto.
I love it here I'm in a 1 bedroom apartment on the second floor with 2 west facing windows that get that beautiful ocean breeze.
Its quiet now it's just after midnight and I can hear the big old sea lion barking from his buoy about a 1/4 mile off shore. He sits on that bouy and he barks and barks and barks incessantly the sound of it echoing and reverbarating back from the shore. He'll carry on like that for the better part of an hour.
I have a curious mind so naturally I wonder: why does that Sea Lion bark like that? Is it something akin to a Wolf howling?
Is he proclaiming to all that HE is the King of the Sea? Or is he King of the buoy? Is he just lonely & advertising or does he merely enjoy the sound of his own voice bouncing back to him from the beach?
Why do you think the sea lion barks?