California Sea Lion
Zalophus californianus
California Sea Lion · San Diego · 6 March 2026
A California Sea Lion from above, flippers spread flat against the sand at La Jolla - a resting posture, not a distressed one. The colony here hauls out on the beach every afternoon, and the town has learned to live with the smell.
Sea lions haul out in large, loosely social groups mainly to rest, warm up and avoid the sharks and orcas that hunt them in open water, rather than for any single shared purpose.
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