California sea lions are sea mammals that have large, fat, streamlined bodies, small heads, and large powerful flippers. Males are dark brown, while females and young are a uniform tan colour. Sea lions and seals are in the same family but have many differences. For example, sea lions have ears that you can see on the sides of their heads and seals don’t. Sea lions are also quicker on land than seals as they have bigger flippers to help them move their body at a quicker pace.
Sea lions are excellent swimmers and can swim at top speeds of 40 km per hour.
California sea lions are sea mammals that have large, fat, streamlined bodies, small heads, and large powerful flippers. Males are dark brown, while females and young are a uniform tan colour. Sea lions and seals are in the same family but have many differences. For example, sea lions have ears that you can see on the sides of their heads and seals don’t. Sea lions are also quicker on land than seals as they have bigger flippers to help them move their body at a quicker pace.
Sea lions are excellent swimmers and can swim at top speeds of 40 km per hour.
The California sea lion lives in coastal areas of the western United States, from southeast Alaska to Central Mexico. They rarely go more than 16 km out to sea.
California sea lions live up to 30 years in zoos and approximately half as long in the wild.
California sea lions eat squid, fish and sometimes clams. They eat 5-8 % of their body weight per day (6-18 kg depending on size of the sea lion).
A group of sea lions is called a colony.
Sea Lion Cove.
The Galapagos sea lion is the closest relative to the California sea lion.
Mammalia
Carnivora
The California sea lion is a very sleek animal, faster than any other seal or sea lion. They can swim at top speeds of 40 km per hour. They normally swim around 8-10 km per hour.
They can remain underwater for nearly 10 minutes before surfacing to breathe.
Sea lions have be known to follow dolphins to take advantage of their better food-sourcing abilities.
The largest male has a territory that he defends with aggressive physical displays and vocalisations. There can be up to 14 females in his territory. They live in huge colonies on rocky shores and are very social on land and in the water.
A baby sea lion is called a pup.
The gestation period of the sea lion is 9 months.
There is usually one pup per birth.
Pups weight approximately 5-6 kg at birth.
4-5 years of age.
Adult male sea lions weigh up to 390 kg and reach 213 cm in length.
Adult female sea lions weigh approximately 110 kg and reach lengths of 182 cm.
The California sea lion is listed as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation in Nature.
According to the IUCN, there are currently 180,000 mature California sea lions.
Threats include pollution, human caused injury, entanglement in nets, and biotoxins from harmful algal blooms.
Dublin Zoo is part of a breeding programme for California sea lions.
Sea lions feed on different types of fish and squid.
Sea lions, while not normally dangerous, cannot actually be considered friendly towards humans; they can be curious at times.
Sea lions live in the Pacific Ocean, from the Southern east part of Alaska to Central Mexico.
Sea lions are not endangered but are a protected marine species.
Male sea lions can weigh up to 390 kg and females can weigh up to 110 kg.
Sea lions do not eat humans.
Sea lions do not eat penguins, they eat fish and squid.
Male sea lions can grow up to 213 cm and females up to 182 cm.
Sea lions are a mammal.
Sea lions are eaten by killer whales and large sharks.
Sea lions are not endangered but are a protected marine species.
Sea lions can stay underwater for almost 10 minutes.
California sea lions live up to 30 years in zoos, and approximately half as long in the wild.
They are in the same family but have many differences, for example sea lions have ears that you can see on the sides of their heads and seals don’t. Sea lions also can move more quickly on land as they have bigger flippers than seals who have to move more on their bellies.
A group of sea lions is called a colony.
Sea lions bark to warn of danger, to call to others, to call their pups, and for many other social reasons.
Sea lions normally swim between 8- 10 km per hour, but can swim up to 40 km per hour.
Sea lions can stay underwater for almost 10 minutes.
Sea lions are not closely related to dogs.
Sea lions move at a pace of around 8-10km on per hour on land.
Sea lions normally swim around 8-10 km per hour but have been known to swim up 40 km per hour!
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