150 kilogram California sea lion spotted far from the ocean by a driver who at first thought it was a bear
The male sea lion ...was first reported by an eagle-eyed driver during the dark morning hours, according to DFO marine mammal co-ordinator Paul Cottrell.
Ucluelet RCMP Const. Mark Macdonnell said when he was sent out Sunday morning to a report of a sea lion on the highway nearly 10 kilometres inland from the ocean, he was skeptical he would find anything... But then I came around the corner, and all of a sudden, there's this big sea lion in the middle of the road...
Over the next 90 minutes, Macdonnell, the warden and two highway maintenance workers gently herded the animal 500 metres down the road to a lower section of highway, where it re-entered the lake and swam away. ..
This isn't the first case of a pinniped turning up far from its usual home... a few years ago, a very large sea lion nicknamed "James Pond" had to be tranquillized and moved from the Pender Harbour pond and yard it had taken up residence in...
The male sea lion ...was first reported by an eagle-eyed driver during the dark morning hours, according to DFO marine mammal co-ordinator Paul Cottrell.
Ucluelet RCMP Const. Mark Macdonnell said when he was sent out Sunday morning to a report of a sea lion on the highway nearly 10 kilometres inland from the ocean, he was skeptical he would find anything... But then I came around the corner, and all of a sudden, there's this big sea lion in the middle of the road...
Over the next 90 minutes, Macdonnell, the warden and two highway maintenance workers gently herded the animal 500 metres down the road to a lower section of highway, where it re-entered the lake and swam away. ..
This isn't the first case of a pinniped turning up far from its usual home... a few years ago, a very large sea lion nicknamed "James Pond" had to be tranquillized and moved from the Pender Harbour pond and yard it had taken up residence in...
