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	Stellar Sea Lion
		Sea lion populations in the Gulf of Alaska are dwindling because their prey is declining as commercial fisheries increase their take.
		Steller sea lions are the largest sea lions and are often confused with California sea lions.
		Sea lions use their long front flippers to push themselves through water and their back flippers as rudders for steering.
	www.npca.org /marine_and_coastal/marine_wildlife/sealion.html (330 words)

	Steller and California sea lions
		The Northern sea lion is the largest of the sea lions.
		Sea lions are known to damage fishing gear and steal or destroy fish in the nets.
		Recently, a number of California sea lions were involved in a conflict with the steeleye salmon fisheries in Washington.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/sealion1.htm (1311 words)

	ANIMAL INFO BOOKS - California Sea Lion
		California sea lions usually do not need to dive very deeply, since most of their food is found in shallow waters, about 26 to 74 m (85–243 ft.) deep.
		California sea lions are susceptible to gastric disorders, viral, and bacterial infections.
		California sea lions on the coast of Seattle, Washington prey on a declining population of winter steelhead salmon that return to the Lake Washington drainage to spawn each winter.
	www.seaworld.org /animal-info/info-books/california-sea-lion/index.htm (4683 words)

	Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
		The water level is lowered when it is expected that a new sea lion pup will be born and once the pup is born to create a "beach." This is done because sea lions pups are not able to swim.
		The California sea lion population at the Galapagos Islands is totally protected; while the Japanese population is probably extinct.
		Sea lions live on rocky flats and shelves which are washed by large waves or submerged at high tide which help the sea lions stay wet.
	www.omahazoo.com /exhibits/index.asp?page=exhibits/sealion.htm (489 words)

	Sea Lions Video~ Presented by Rio Films ~ California Sea Lions ~Sea Lion Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sea lions, seals, and walruses make-up an order known as pinnipeds- meaning "fin-footed." There are 33 species scattered across the world's oceans and rivers living in an amazing diversity of environments.
		Sea lions are found in the Channel Islands including all eight of the island chain year round.
		Sea lions can use their rear flippers to walk on unlike seals that have to wobble, sea lions have external ear flaps unlike seals that just have a hole like a bird, and sea lions are more vocal then seals- usually making barking or growling sounds.
	www.sealionsmovie.com /slf.html (747 words)

	Sea Lion Caves
		Sea Lions are mammals, or warm blooded animals which give birth, nurse their offspring, and must breathe air.
		Young sea lions called pups seem to be immune to most diseases as long as they are breast fed. As they mature, pups become susceptible to internal parasites such as round worms and tape worms which are a deterrent to both growth and longevity.
		Population increases are also somewhat checked by adult sea lions inadvertently trampling their young and also by accidental drownings of the newly born which have not yet learned to swim.
	www.sealioncaves.com /2root/see.html (1680 words)

	San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Sea Lion
		Sea lions are also able to rotate their hind flippers forward to help them scoot along beaches and rocky shorelines.
		Sea lions are great swimmers, too, and can reach speeds of up to 25 miles per hour (40 kilometers per hour) for short bursts.
		At the San Diego Zoo, sea lions are fed five different types of fish: capelin, squid, pompano, mackerel, and herring.
	www.sandiegozoo.org /animalbytes/t-sea_lion.html (1046 words)

	SCS: Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
		sea lions, are the largest of the Otariidae (eared seals) and are distributed around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean from California to northern Japan.
		In 1997 the U.S. population of the Steller sea lion west of 144ºW (Cape Suckling, Alaska) was reclassified as
		Steller sea lions are opportunistic feeders, foraging mostly near the shore and over the continental shelf for fish, including walleye pollock, herring, capelin, mackerel, rockfish and salmon, and cephalopods such as squid and octopus.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/steller.htm (1484 words)

	Steller Sea Lion: Wildlife Notebook Series - Alaska Department of Fish and Game
		General description: At birth, the sea lion pup's coat is chocolate brown with a frosty appearance because the tips of the hair are colorless.
		Distribution and migration: Steller sea lions are found from the northwestern California coast northward into the Bering Sea to Bering Straits, in the Okhotsk Sea and along the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, in the Kurile and Commander islands, and south as far as Hokkaido and northern Honshu in Japan.
		The number of sea lions in Alaska declined by 50 percent from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.
	www.adfg.state.ak.us /pubs/notebook/marine/sealion.php (750 words)

	Steller's Sea Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus), also known as the Northern Sea Lion, is a sea lion of the temperate eastern Pacific, named for the eighteenth century naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.
		The range of the Steller sea lion extends from the Kuril Islands and the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia to the Gulf of Alaska in the north, and down to Año Nuevo Island off central California.
		Recent evidence suggests that the sea lions in Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril islands comprise a third Asian stock, while the sea lions on the eastern seaboard of Kamchatka and the Commander Islands belong to the Western stock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steller's_Sea_Lion (709 words)

	Zalophus californianus , California Sea Lion
		California sea lions are very social animals, and groups often rest closely packed together at favored haul-out sites on land, or float together on the ocean's surface in "rafts." They are sometimes seen porpoising, or jumping out of the water, presumably to speed up their swimming.
		Sea lions are known to have such diseases as pneumonia, caused by a parasitic lungworm, and a bacterial infection called leptospirosis, which affects their livers and kidneys.
		The Californian Sea lion was once killed in great numbers for their blubber which could be made into oil, and the rest would be made into dog food.
	www.racerocks.com /racerock/eco/taxalab/carolinem.htm (888 words)

	California Sea Lion--BIOLOGICAL AND ECOTOXICOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE SPECIES RESIDING IN ...
		At sea, sea lions are found in pelagic and near shore waters to surf zone while on land they rest and breed in groups of various sizes and are often found in large rookeries containing thousands of animals (Reidman, 1989).
		Little is known about the feeding behavior of the California sea lion, however, it has been noted that they may feed both at night and during the day, and that their excellent dark vision assists in foraging in deep waters (Odell, 1981).
		Sea lions were observed to forage in large groups when extensive schools of fish or squid are present.
	www.pwrc.usgs.gov /bioeco/sealion.htm (3096 words)

	Sea Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sea lions are characterized by the presence of external ear pinnae or flaps, long front flippers, and the ability to walk on four flippers on land.
		Sea lions are generally found in coastal waters of the temperate to subpolar regions of both northern and southern hemispheres.
		Sea Lions are often a popular attraction at zoos and aquariums, performing tricks such as throwing and catching balls on their noses and clapping.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sea_lion (264 words)

	Sea Lion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sea lion C404 is seen in the fish ladder at Bonneville Dam Tuesday, March 21, 2006, in Cascade Locks, Ore. Numerous sea lions head for the dam each spring, but C404 is in a class alone.
		A particularly crafty sea lion is befuddling the Army Corps of Engineers, who have come to believe the 1,000-pound mammal is either from hell or from Harvard.
		The sea lion and his ilk have been camping out at the base of the Bonneville Dam and munching chinook salmon trying to migrate up the Columbia River to spawn.
	jamesnews.blogster.com /sea_lion.html (157 words)

	California Sea Lion Facts - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Sea lions have external ear flaps, large eyes, and 40 to 60 whiskers.
		Habitat: California sea lions live in the waters near and on sandy and rocky shores of coastal islands and mainland.
		California sea lions are among the most vocal mammals, Their vocalizations include barks, roars, growls, and grunts.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Animals/OceanLiving/Facts/CAsealionfacts.cfm (687 words)

	AMNH - Expedition : Endangered
		Steller's sea lions are suffering massive, inexplicable population losses.
		Sea lion populations in other areas all around the world are suffering similar losses.
		In 1990, Steller's sea lion was brought under the protection of the ESA as a threatened species and placed on the Endangered Species List.
	www.amnh.org /nationalcenter/Endangered/sealion/sealion.html (753 words)

	Galapagos sea lions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The overall goal is to determine the current state and abundance of the sea lions and fur seals in Galapagos in order to set the baseline for monitoring and evaluating the extent of the fisheries by-catch mortalities, impacts and natural cycles; and to evaluate the interaction related with humans activities.
		Sea lions and fur seals are victims of the by-catch produced by long-lines, nets and other fishing mechanisms.
		The threats to the Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus californianus wollebaeki) and the Galapagos fur seal (Archtocephalus galapagoensis) are particularly significant due to their relatively small populations (20,000 to 30,000 individuals), and their main colonies and feeding areas are in zones where the human activities are developing.
	www.darwinfoundation.org /marine/sealion.html (552 words)

	sea lion
		There are two species of sea lion in the northern hemisphere, and three in the south.
		The Californian sea lion Zalophus californianus only reaches 2.3 m/7 ft, and is the species most often seen in zoos and as a ‘performing seal’.
		It is one of the larger sea lions; males weigh up to 300 kg/660 lb, three times as much as females, and are 2 m/6.5 ft long.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007380.html (378 words)

	Science Notes 2001: Sea Lion Savvy
		At 150 pounds, she is smaller than the average female sea lion, but her contribution to our understanding of the animal mind carries a lot of weight.
		The sea lions learned to relate a group of ten letters together and a group of ten numbers together by forming connections between individual symbols within each category.
		In the wild, this ability might allow a sea lion to mentally group things such as the sight, smell and sound of a friend or enemy, enabling her to respond to any of these signals in the appropriate manner.
	scicom.ucsc.edu /SciNotes/0101/sealion.htm (3023 words)

	California Sea Lion - The California Sea Lions of British Columbia, Canada.
		California Sea Lion - The California Sea Lions of British Columbia, Canada.
		An adult male is larger weighing about 800 pounds with a sagittal crest or bump on the top of the head; the female who is considerably smaller, averages 250 pounds.
		The California Sea Lion prey on schooling fish, rockfish, squid, flatfish, hake, lamprey, dogfish and salmon.
	www.bcadventure.com /adventure/wilderness/animals/sealion.htm (224 words)

	Californian Sea Lion
		All sea lions have a thick layer of blubber that keeps them warm in the cold weather.
		The sea lion has wiskers, called virbissae, which help the animals sence of touch.
		Sea lions eat a variety of fish and shell fish.
	www.geocities.com /sealion0915 (252 words)

	California Sea Lion (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The sea lion was not at the zoo.
		One adaptation that the sea lion has is its blubber to keep it warm when it is in cold water.
		The environmental changes affecting the sea lion are oil spills, fishermen, and the dumping of garbage in the ocean.
	lsb.syr.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /projects/cyberzoo/sealion.html (295 words)

	SEA LION - Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sea ice represents the boundary between the two much larger geophysical fluids, the atmosphere and the ocean, and therefore influences their interaction considerably.
		The use of the more sophisticated sea ice model component will allow a better evaluation of the role of the sea ice in the climate system, especially since these advanced sea ice models are less sensitive to internal perturbations and to changes of the boundary conditions in atmosphere and ocean.
		Application of a sophisticated dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model to the 1979-98 period for Antarctica with re-analyzed ECMWF and NCEP (Numerical Center for Environmental Prediction, USA) atmospheric forcing; comparison of spatial and temporal characteristics of the observed sea ice concentration and drift variability with the results of task 2 and task 3.
	www.iup.physik.uni-bremen.de /iuppage/sealion_ed1.html (1656 words)

	The Marine Mammal Center
		BEHAVIOR: California sea lions are very social animals, and groups often rest closely packed together at favored haul-out sites on land, or float together on the ocean's surface in "rafts." They are sometimes seen porpoising, or jumping out of the water, presumably to speed up their swimming.
		California sea lions are opportunistic eaters, feeding on squid, octopus, herring, rockfish, mackerel, and small sharks.
		In 1998 and again in 2000, large numbers of sea lions were treated for domoic acid poisoning, a condition caused by harmful algal blooms which causes the animals to have seizures.
	www.marinemammalcenter.org /learning/education/pinnipeds/casealion.asp (595 words)

	Other sea lions and fur seals
		The Southern sea lion often interferes with long line and gill net fisheries, although the extend of this interaction is unknown.
		Robinson and Dennis (1988) concluded that it is very difficult to obtain an accurate estimate of the Australian sea lion population, because the colonies are scattered over remote islands.
		While at sea, 2.8% of the time the seals are resting, 24% of the time is spent diving (probably feeding) and 73.2% is spent swimming.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/slions.htm (1931 words)

	USATODAY.com - Crafty sea lion confounds engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. (AP) — A particularly crafty sea lion is befuddling the Army Corps of Engineers, who have come to believe the 1,000-pound mammal is either from hell — or from Harvard.
		One particular sea lion — named C404 because of a brand applied by a state and federal program — is in a class by himself.
		In the 1990s, for instance, a group of sea lions that nearly wiped out a winter steelhead run at the Ballard Locks in Seattle was marked for death, he said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2006-03-31-sealion_x.htm (577 words)

	Lindblad's Sea Lion
		The 21-year-old Sea Lion carries 70 guests in 37 cabins – 32 of which are outside, and 26 of which lead out to the ship’s decks.
		Sea Lion has plenty of open deck space for whale sightings and watching the dolphins ride the bow, as well as lounging in the sun on the teak deck chairs, and reading a book at a table under the canopy.
		The Sea Lion was anchored inside the barrier of Isla Magdalena, in the middle of a thick fog that took about an hour or so to start lifting.
	www.cruise-reports.com /DailyLog/SeaLion/SeaLion.htm (6987 words)

	sea lion — FactMonster.com
		Sea lions swim by rowing movements of the forelimbs, with the hindlimbs stretched out behind the body as a rudder.
		This species is found around the Bering Sea, on the Aleutian Islands, and down the Asian coast to N Japan and the American coast to S California.
		Sea lions have been hunted for blubber and hide and have also been killed in large numbers because fishermen blamed them for robbing their nets.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0844198.html (515 words)

	CNN - NMFS accused of waffling on sea lion protection - November 16, 1998
		All evidence indicates that the declines in sea lions, seals and other predators coincides with the development of high-volume trawl fisheries in the same times and areas.
		In the Bering Sea, record levels of 50-70 percent of the pollock catch and over 80 percent of the Atka mackerel catch, are taken from designated critical foraging habitat for Steller sea lions.
		Right now the fishery season is short and intense, and increasingly has taken place during the difficult fall and winter months, when sea lions are more likely to be food stressed -- pups are learning to forage on their own and heavy nutritional demands are placed on nursing and pregnant females.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/science/9811/16/sea.lion.yoto/index.html (917 words)

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