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• Environmental changes stress West Coast sea lions - Northwest Fisheries Science Center
• California Sea Lion
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All rights reserved. But in the wild, the California sea lion is a sleek animal, faster than any other sea lion or seal. These eared seals top out at speeds of some 25 miles an hour. Unlike other sea lions, California sea lions do not have lionlike manes. These pinnipeds live along the rocky Pacific Ocean coastlines of western North America.

Huge colonies can be seen gathered on seaside rocks, and even on man-made structures, for breeding and for birthing. Males gather harems of females to their sides in competition to sire young pups, which are born on land. The sea lion's ancient ancestors, like those of whales and dolphins, lived on land.

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The modern animal is well adapted to an aquatic environment, with its streamlined body and powerful flippers. This helps them escape from their enemies, killer whales and sharks. It can be pretty dark in the ocean, but sea lions can find their way around with the help of their sensitive whiskers. Like a straw in a soda bottle, each whisker can rotate around with the underwater currents, letting the sea lion "feel" any food swimming nearby. All sea lions are carnivores, eating fish, squid, crabs, and clams.

Steller sea lions also eat seals. Most food is just swallowed whole. Sea lions often toss the fish or squid up and around until it can slide headfirst down the mouth. They use their flat back teeth to crush food that has a hard shell before swallowing. At the San Diego Zoo, sea lions are fed five different types of fish: capelin, squid, pompano, mackerel, and herring. Life in a harem: Despite their adaptations for aquatic living, sea lions are still bound to the land for reproduction.

Usually the males, called bulls, leave the water first in the spring to stake out territorial claims on ice, rocks, or the shore. The bulls gear up for this breeding season by gorging themselves on extra food to create an especially thick layer of blubber, allowing the individual to live for weeks without eating as he guards his territory and females.

During the breeding season, bulls bark loudly and continuously to establish or defend their territories. Bulls also stare, shake their head, or lunge toward any opponent. The bulls are several times larger that the adult females, called cows. During the breeding season, each adult bull tries to gather up as many cows as he can to form his "harem.

The bull watches over his harem, protecting it from harm. During the birthing season these areas are known as rookeries. The exception to this breeding behavior is the Australian sea lion bull; he does not stake out a territory or form a harem. Instead, the bulls fight for any available female.

A baby sea lion, called a pup, can pick out its mother from among hundreds gathered on rocky shores just by the sound she makes. Between the bulls roaring, the mothers barking, and the pups bleating, the rookery is a noisy place indeed! Several days or weeks after the bulls have established their territories on beaches and rocks, the breeding females come ashore to join them.

Each male tries to herd as many breeding females as he can into a harem. Those females that conceived the year before are the last ones to arrive, gathering on land to deliver their pup. Sea lion females can delay implantation, which means that if a cow becomes pregnant, the fertilized egg only develops to a certain point before it temporarily stops growing until the time is right to continue.

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Some scientists believe that delayed implantation allows sea lions to combine the breeding season with the birthing season. Female sea lions usually give birth to a single pup per year. Pups are born with their eyes open and their tummies ready for their mother's rich milk. The milk is high in fat, and this helps the pup grow that important layer of blubber to keep warm. Pups are born with a long, dense coat of hair called the lanugo that helps keep them warm until they develop that blubber. Mothers are very attentive to their pup during the first two to four days of life, nuzzling them and picking them up by the scruff of the neck.

The pups are capable of awkward swimming at birth, but can walk at just 30 minutes old! At just a few weeks of age, sea lion pups are ready for their first swimming and fishing lessons. They also must learn how to stay away from sharks and how to survive storms at sea! Nursing continues up to six months of age. After weaning, pups may stay with their mother at sea for up to one year. Although most zoos exhibited only one or two specimens of these aquatic clowns, the enclosures were always surrounded by laughing faces.

Within minutes, 26 sea lions had been swept away from their Zoo home and onto the streets of downtown San Diego! They were retrieved from the police station, newspaper offices, front porches, and various shops. By the time of the California Pacific International Exposition, he was entertaining capacity crowds with two shows daily. In , Wegeforth Bowl was built to seat 1, people. Until recently, sea lions were hunted for their meat, skin, and oil.

Some people even used sea lion whiskers for pipe cleaners!

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Many sea lion populations were wiped out as a result. They were also accidentally killed when caught in commercial fishing nets and were shot on purpose by fishermen who believed the sea lions damage their nets. Other sea lion species are experiencing declines as well, for many of the same reasons. There were over strandings of young sea lions from Washington State to Baja California, Mexico, in , an indication that something unusual is going on in the ocean. Young sea lions typically leave their mother and go out on their own between eight months and one year of age, but if they are weaned early or orphaned, they may not have learned the skills needed to hunt for fish on their own.