“Female sea lions and pups stay around the island because the pups can’t fend for themselves,” Milstein, a NOAA official for the West Coast office, said. “They gather prey and feed them to ...

One day, late in January, a friend and I watched two Steller sea lions swimming near Pt. Louisa. One of them held a front flipper high above the water for several minutes. We often see this behavior, ...