Sentences with phrase «young sea lion pups»

At Los Islotes — a steep craggy seamount leaping straight from the sea — observe a sea lion colony from the boat and skiff, or slip into a wetsuit for an early morning snorkel with curious, agile young sea lion pups.

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.

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

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I talked with some sea lions too who told me about two young male sea lion pups who were rescued after being found stranded, malnourished and underweight.

The sea lions here said the young pups are excited to be at Georgia Aquarium because they're treated like kings (they're sea lions, after all!).

As nursing sea lion mothers travel farther from their pups to find food, these young sea lions are unable to fend for themselves and wash ashore due to starvation.

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 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.

Despite multiple attempts by marine mammal centers to rehabilitate these young sea lions for release back into the wild, many pups continue to wash ashore and are deemed non-releasable by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries).