Sentences with phrase «of young sea lions»

NOAA Fisheries scientists analyzed changes in sea lion prey and found that high - calorie sardines and anchovies, both rich in fat that is vital to the growth of young sea lions, have declined in the last 10 years in the areas near the Channel Islands, where nursing mothers search for food.

So far this year, The Marine Mammal Center has released more than 100 healthy animals back to the wild, many of them young sea lions just like Percevero.

They found that that high - calorie sardines and anchovies, both rich in fat that is vital to the growth of young sea lions, have declined since the mid-2000s in the areas around the Channel Islands where the females forage.

In 1993, we came to the rescue of another young sea lion nicknamed Bird Man and again in 1999 for a sea lion named Fortress.

Not exact matches

Though the marine mammals were captured from the wild in the early years of the program, since the late 1980s, the program has bred its dolphins in - house at its training facility in San Diego and buys young sea lion pups from marine parks, said Mark Xitco, who heads up all the marine mammal training and care for the program.

BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS Lucas Hedges — Manchester by the Sea - Winner Alex R. Hibbert — Moonlight Lewis MacDougall — A Monster Calls Madina Nalwanga — Queen of Katwe Sunny Pawar - Lion Hailee Steinfeld — The Edge of Seventeen

Best Young Actor / Actress Ruby Barnhill — «The BFG» Lucas Hedges — «Manchester by the Sea» Lewis MacDougall — «A Monster Calls» Sunny Pawar — «Lion» Angourie Rice — «The Nice Guys» Hailee Steinfeld — «The Edge of Seventeen» Ferdia Walsh - Peelo — «Sing Street»

Among the first - time nominees were Andrew Garfield, Ruth Negga, Dev Patel (for Lion), Isabelle Huppert (the legendary French actress, shortlisted for Paul Verhoeven's controversial drama Elle), Lucas Hedges (the young man at the center of Manchester by the Sea), and Moonlight's Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali.

And that is one reason why he was so surprised to find one of the lions — a male, quite young though no longer a cub — just standing on the deck behind the lionchamber, not far from the door, all alone, gazing out to sea with his whiskers down and a strange expression on his face.

We've all seen the photos — record numbers of starving young sea lions, little more than skin and bones, that have washed ashore along the Northern California coast.

Over the coming months, as seals and sea lions haul out on beaches and give birth to pups up and down the California coast, the Marine Mammal Center is looking for volunteers to care for a likely onslaught of young animals that need help.

But animal populations also experience wide - spread hunger, and the hundreds of emaciated young seals and sea lions stranded on California beaches in the past year were a poignant example.

But sea lion mothers are having trouble finding enough food to sustain themselves and the pups they are nursing, so many of these young animals are left starving on the islands for days at a time.

You don't have to be a risk taker to get in the water, as there's no danger of becoming lunch for an animal ten times your size — though a young sea lion might take a playful nip at the tip of your swim fins.

And many of them are tiny, young sea lions struggling to survive.

In spring of 2016, these young sea lions will find a permanent home in Georgia Aquarium's new sea lion gallery presented by SunTrust, where they will help to inspire and educate the public about issues facing animals in the wild.

Our goal is to feed young or emaciated pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) the equivalent of 10 % of their body weight in whole fish (mostly herring) every day.

Whirlybird, a young California sea lion, was found listless and unresponsive on a set of stairs leading to the beach near Corcoran Lagoon on July 2.

This spring, the center saw an influx of sick and starving young elephant seals and California sea lions.