Warming oceans have flooded California with starving sea lion pups

[KamaAina]

http://qz.com/351927/warming-oceans-have-flooded-california-with-starving-sea-lion-pups/

Only a few months after thousands of walruses found refuge from the ice-less ocean on the Alaskan coast, hundreds of sea lion pups off the coast of California are stranded through central and southern California’s shores—in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties—for essentially the same reason: The ocean is too warm.

They are starving and they are dying....

This means that about 0.4% of the total California sea lion’s population, currently estimated at around 300,000 individuals, has been affected. It is yet unclear how many of the stranded pups have died, because it’s hard to tell the number of those who may have died before reaching the coast.

At the moment, 640 sea lions are hosted in seven rescue facilities selected by the NOAA along the West coast. The remaining have been released to the wild after rehabilitation, or have died.

Learn to swim.

[applegrove]

1. Too sad.

[joeybee12]

2. That photo is heart-breaking...knr

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Pray harder!

[smirkymonkey]

4. Awww! How sad!

Poor little babies.

[dhill926]

5. had one on our beach the other day...

heartbreaking...

[Generic Other]

6. So I am reading your article on the seals

and scroll down -- wham all of a sudden I am reading about furs: "There's actually a way to feel good about wearing them." For a second, I thought they were referring to the baby seals. That was bad newsfeed placement!!

[KamaAina]

7. Sea lions are not the same as seals

seals don't have ears.

[Generic Other]

9. Oops

I did not know that about baby sea lions. They look so fragile.

[flvegan]

8. Read further: lack of food.

Go vegan, stop taking from them.

Learn to eat properly, without selfishness.

[KamaAina]

10. What seafood do we and sea lions compete for?