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An influx of sea lions at Pier 39 has resulted in the need for more docks. According to SF Examiner, around 1,500 of them "are piled on top of each other on the docks," which is "not only a record-breaking number of the massive creatures at the pier, it’s also three times more than normal." But this spurt isn't just happening in SF. The California coast, it seems, has seen a boom in sea lion growth this year. (Yay!)
With this increase in barking lions, the Ex goes on to report, the Marine Mammal Center "is preparing for a busy rescue season and has more than 800 volunteers for its triage centers. Since August, the marine center has picked up about 80 sea lions for things like being malnourished and broken fins."
Anyway, the city plans on building more docks for the critters so that they have room to spread out while sun bathing.
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They make great pets. Adopt a sea lion today!
The California coast, it seems, has seen a boom in sea lion growth this year. (Yay!)
It's my understanding that it's not all sunshine and lollipops and happy barks, that marine scientists are actually pretty concerned about what oceanic conditions might've brought them here in such great numbers at this point.
Up in Bolinas, there were highly unusual schools of anchovies or sardines all over, which had brought brown pelicans by the hundreds to gorge. Maybe somewhere else is missing its anchovies, so the sea lions have followed the fish?
Poor salmon. More sea lions means less other fish too.
Aaaaaaaand, what's next in the great circle of marine life?
15 deep schools of 25 foot Great Whites frolicking at Ocean Beach, is what.
Oooh, it'll be a good year for great whites. I just wish our population was as spectacularly acrobatic as the South African variety.
Also, I remember strolling down to the pier when the seals first started showing up en masse. There was an epic melee happening on a platform that had one more would-be sunbather than there was room for. We started picking our favorite sea lions, cheering for your own when it shoved off another sea lion, heckling the others.
Next thing you know, there's a crowd of tourists watching with us. And then they start cheering. And the crowd gets bigger. Then the frat boys start passing money. Then there's shouting. Then the crowd starts to divide into factions. Then we got the hell out of there.
A weird case of people imitating nature?
Then the frat boys start passing money.
what does this mean?
They were placing bets on the sea lions.
So we're cutting all sorts of funding left and right but somehow there's money to build some extra docks for sea lions?! For reals?
Not for reals. Don't worry.
Shark week is gonna be awesome.