Famous San Francisco Sea Lions Abandon Their Pier 39 Post(wired.com)

42 pointsby tdedeckovor 17 Jahren12 comments

Famous San Francisco Sea Lions Abandon Their Pier 39 Post

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/disappearing-sea-lions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

9 comments

white_eskimovor 17 Jahren

Hmm interesting. Back in October, I reported a dead sea lion outside my house (I live on the Bay) to the department of Ornithology and Mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences. They came out and removed the animal's carcass, and told me it had died of kidney failure due to a sexually transmitted disease (Bacterial Vaginosis). They explained that half of the Pier 39 sea lions were victims of the STD.

More information can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.11.045

I doubt it, but I wonder if this STD had any impact on their leave...

mixmaxvor 17 Jahren

There are a few left on google maps though

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

eamvor 17 Jahren

I counted them, there's about 59 of them in that shot.

nwatsonvor 17 Jahren

That figures. The rapture comes, and in San Francisco, yes, I'd expect the sea lions would be the only ones to go.

seldovor 17 Jahren

Awww, what a shame! The sea lions were the only genuinely nice thing about that whole miserable tourist strip. I loved watching them just lie there, completely chilled out, with no cares in the world except whether they wanted more fish yet.

ShabbyDoovor 17 Jahren

I like the guy who pretends to be a bush and scares tourists myself. How much does he make a year?

willwagnervor 17 Jahren

$60K, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Famous_Bushman

msievor 17 Jahren

So long and thanks for all the fish!

arithmeticvor 17 Jahren

Uh, sea lions != dolphins.

dannyrvor 17 Jahren

I think they have been reading Alex Payne's (al3x) Blog too much. ;-)

http://al3x.net/2009/12/16/in-which-im-not-alone.html

novumvor 17 Jahren

After his success with bay area humpback whales, James T. Kirk brought SF's sea lions to the future to repopulate.

clavallevor 17 Jahren

Someone probably sold their place and invalidated its rent controlled status...

Larry42vor 17 Jahren

They left after San Francisco's best radio station got shut down, Energy 92.7 :P That happened a little while ago though.