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The results refocus the debate on the causes of sea lion pup weight loss from episodic stresses associated with El Niño years to a decadal - long trend of declining forage quality in the waters around the California Channel Island rookeries, the researchers wrote.

However, the close correlation between the fish available and the weight of sea lion pups provides «compelling evidence of a food limitation effect on the weight of dependent pups,» the scientists wrote.

In March of 2015, an unusually high number of sea lions pups were stranded on California beaches during an Unusual Mortality Event (UME), a sad phenomenon that is reaching a record - breaking high.

Also making a comeback, after years of hunting, are the thousands of pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) that breed, pup, and haul out on the island's 27 miles of isolated coastline.

A silky brown California sea lion pup was rescued Wednesday morning after being found on the side of the road near Fort Funston in San Francisco.

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.

On Tuesday we told you the story of Hoppie the sea lion pup's rescue and rehabilitation, but the truth is the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito is on the brink of having more wayward mammals in need than ever beforOn Tuesday we told you the story of Hoppie the sea lion pup's rescue and rehabilitation, but the truth is the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito is on the brink of having more wayward mammals in need than ever beforon the brink of having more wayward mammals in need than ever before.

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.

Their life cycle is similar to their more abundant sea lion cousins, with mothers giving birth on the island in June and July, and temporarily leaving their pups on the beach as they forage for food nearby for nine months before pups are weaned in the spring.

In order to provide sustenance for their pups, sea lion mothers have to leave their pups on the beach while they forage for fish.

At 7:10 a.m. on February 11, National Park Ranger Matt Wallat was driving along Skyline Boulevard near Fort Funston in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area when he stopped to assist two citizens guarding a California sea lion pup that had just crossed the four - lane road.

In September 2014, Melin and her team, along with veterinary staff from The Marine Mammal Center, visited the sea lion rookeries on the Channel Islands, a primary breeding area, to assess the pups born three months prior.

Researchers have also been monitoring sea lion mothers with pups on the Channel Islands.

Staggering populations of over 70,000 California sea lions, 5,000 northern fur seals, 50,000 northern elephant seals and 1,100 harbor seals breed and pup on the island each year.

On this route, the tall ship heads out from Channel Islands Harbor to Anacapa, where passengers are likely to see pods of dolphins along the way as well as seals and sea lions with their pups in the cliffs at the base of the island.

Unprecedented warm waters off the Pacific coast over the past two years have led fish that marine mammals feed on to move to colder waters — making it difficult for seals and sea lions to nourish themselves, let alone feed their pups.

Al Catraz, a young sea lion pup, wards off the chill on a heating pad at The Marine Mammal Center March 22, 2012.

Contrasting effects of heterozygosity on survival and hookworm resistance in California sea lion pups.

Marin County's Marine Mammal Center has been caring for a sea lion pup that was rescued from a dock on Alcatraz Island two weeks ago, spokesman Jim Oswald said.

Current prevalence of adult Uncinaria spp. in northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) and California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) pups on San Miguel Island, California, with notes on the biology of these hookworms.

But our first California sea lion pup of the 2015 pupping season actually arrived last year — on December 1.

Typically, a California sea lion his age would be with his mother on the Channel Islands, a protected area that serves as the primary rookery for these animals, where thousands of mother sea lions give birth and nurse their pups for 10 - 11 months.

La Paz offers some unusual highlights, such as swimming with playful sea lion pups and the chance to see Whale Sharks (harmless plankton eaters, and the largest fish on the planet!).

We paddled passed a pod of dolphins and saw a sea lion and pup resting on shore before we made camp on an unnamed sand - duned island.

And although California Sea lion pups primarily nurse on land, they too have been observed nursing underwater.