SF News Humpday Headlines: Sea Lion Deaths In Sonoma Blamed On Disease Sea lion deaths on the Sonoma coast have a different cause than a similar die-off in SoCal; Oakland's Skyline High School cancels classes after shooting; and Biden nominates Rep. Barbara Lee for U.N. event.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pier 39 Sea Lions Are Getting An Educational Center To Teach Us More About Them Your Golden Gate Bridge toll is going up July 1, the Petaluma “Influencer Mom” was sentenced to three months jail time for her kidnapping hoax, and the Marine Mammal Center is putting an educational pop-up about the sea lions at Pier 39.
SF News Dude Seen Harassing Pier 39 Sea Lions In Viral Video Being Investigated A video showing a guy shotgunning a beer, taking a backward dive into the Bay near Pier 39, and then jumping up on the sea lion platforms to scare them off has led to a federal investigation.
Arts & Entertainment An Ode to 30 Years of Pier 39's Sea Lions In 1989, shortly after the Loma Prieta Earthquake, gaggles of sea lions began randomly showing up on the famous San Francisco pier in growing numbers. And they continue to return 30 years later.
Arts & Entertainment The Marine Mammal Center Needs Your Help For Pupping Season Do you love baby animals and have a flexible schedule on Fridays? Then the Marine Mammal Center is looking for you, as it's seal pupping season and they need some help with the
Arts & Entertainment For 39th Anniversary, Pier 39 Holds 39 Weeks Of Celebratory Events (Starting Today) Pier 39, a destination for tourists and, relatedly, sea lions, is celebrating 39 years since entrepreneurial businessman Warren Simmons took over the mostly defunct cargo pier and recreated it with a dash of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Sea Lion Pup Found In Fremont Is Not Having It With The Cameras Today Lost CA sea lion found in #Fremont on Osgood Rd this morning. @TMMC responding to the #TriCityAnimalShelter #Ozzie pic.twitter.com/2QziGnVtQI— Fremont Police Dept (@FremontPD) March 24, 2016 A perhaps confused, definitely
Arts & Entertainment Celebrate Pier 39's Adorable Sea Lions This Weekend (Photo courtesy of the Sea Lion Center) All weekend (and through Monday) our city's sea lions will be celebrated at Pier 39, where they arrived 26 years ago. As the story goes, the
SF News Multiple Marine Mammals Found Dead Along Ocean Beach Monday At least two dead sea lions, including one large adult, and one large dolphin, washed ashore today along Ocean Beach and there may be more to come. A tipster sent in these photos
SF News Sea Lion Pup Wanders Divisadero The Marine Mammal Center has safely secured a sea lion pup who was waddling through the streets of the Marina District, ABC 7 reports. It was eventually captured with a net after it
SF News Video: Malnourished Sea Lion Pups Fill Marine Mammal Center CBS 5 has this video of sick, malnourished sea lions who are flooding the Marine Mammal Center in San Rafael. It's a tough watch, as you can hear the animals moan and cough.
SF News Extremely Lost Sea Lion Pup Winds Up In Modesto Almond Orchard Late last month, a tiny and extremely lost 36-pound sea lion pup ended up about 100 miles from the Pacific ocean when he accidentally swam up the San Joaquin river and hopped over
SF News Man Attempts To Swim With Pier 39 Sea Lions, Promptly Removed For Pestering Pinnipeds Just after 3 p.m. this afternoon, a 22-year-old man decided he would join the famous Fisherman's Wharf sea lions for a chilly swim in the bay near Pier 39. The San Francisco
SF News Sea Lion Entangled in Fishing Net Rescued From Pier 39 [Updated] A crew from the Marine Mammal Center arrived this afternoon at Pier 39 to rescue a sea lion that had become entangled in a fishing net. The sea lion was loaded onto a
Arts & Entertainment Third Graders Launch Most Adorable Animal Rights Campaign Ever After learning about California sea lions being sentenced to death for eating salmon in Oregon and Washington, one crafty group of local kids decided they weren't going to take the news lying down.
SF News Two California Sea Lions Sentenced To Death For Eating Salmon In Portland, Oregon where the locals apparently don't love the sea lions enough to give them their own deck to lounge around on, two California sea lions were put to death by lethal
SF News Tragic Sea Lion News: King Neptune Succumbs to Gunshot Wounds King Neptune, the young adult sea lion we checked in with yesterday, was put down by vets at the Marina Mammal Center last night. The poor fella was suffering from a bad case
SF News Blinded Sea Lion Could Find a Friend at the San Francisco Zoo When last we checked in with Silent Knight, the sea lion left blind by a shotgun blast to the face on a Sausalito beach last December, veterinarians at the Marine Mammal Center were
misc Sea Lion Shot in the Face, Survives An injured Sea Lion was picked up on a Sausalito beach Wednesday night, where he was found with his right eye missing, his left eye swollen shut and shotgun pellets lodged inside his
SF News Doctors Prepare to Perform First Ever Reconstructive Surgery on Shot Sea Lion's Face Veterinarians at the Marine Mammal Center in Vallejo and a plastic surgeon who usually works on people are set to perform the first ever reconstructive surgery on a sea lion that was found
SF News Two Adorable Baby Sea Lions, Orphaned at Pier 39, Find Home in Chicago Two baby sea lions, whose mother gave birth to them at Pier 39 and abandoned them there for reasons unknown, have settled into their new home at Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago. They don't
SF News Counter-Terrorist Sea Lion Nabs Fake Terrorist You can't make this shit up, folks! Two specially trained sea lions and a dolphin succeeded in "identifying" a suspicious device attached to a concrete pier piling as part of a counter-terrorism exercise
SF News The Mystery of the Missing Sea Lions Is Solved! The ever vigilant C.W. Nevius over at the Chron alerted us last week to the disturbing disappearance of the beloved, smelly sea lions over at Pier 39. Had the stubborn little guys
SF News Sea Lions: Maybe We Should Stop Trying to Save Them? We noted last week the recent infestation of sea lions spilling over down at the piers, and this week's SF Weekly has a piece about efforts by Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center to rehabilitate