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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 1650594" data-attributes="member: 36432">Me too.  I think the accurate word would be released rather than escaped as I don't see sealions as wirehoppers!The scenario I have always envisaged is someone (circus/ambitious individual with big pond in back garden) buying an infant sealion thinking they were getting a female Californian and finding too late that the thing kept right on growing till it was titanic!  One can then imagine a white Ford Transit backing down to a Cornish estuary in the dead of night and the rear doors opening while a trail of fish is flung onto the beach from a safe distance........What a beast it was, I enjoyed seeing it on the Brisons.John</blockquote>