The answer’s rather simple: There are more of them, and they’re hungry. A California sea lion and pup are pictured together on the beaches in the Channel Islands off of Southern California.

He's fully weaned from formula and now eating fish. The Shedd said the pup will be able to eat clams and learn how to pry them open. Sea otters can get up to around 72 to 100 lbs. and they eat ...

The sea lions had learnt to respond to the engines ... we could see a distressed mother frantically calling to her pup through the net, but in its panic the pup couldn’t find a way out.