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I prefer human company
COMPILED BY R.KRITHIKA
Photo: AP
On a walkathon: Astro with teachers and students from Marin Country Day.
Astro, a one-year-old Steller sea lion from Marine Mammal Center, San Francisco, sure likes humans. Abandoned by his mother last June, he was raised by biologists and released after being radio tagged in April this year. But the pup did not take to life in the wild. He turned up under the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, and was picked up by the Marine Mammal Center and released about 27 miles away. On May 11, Astro shocked teachers and students from Marin Country Day Sc
hool by joining them on their walkathon. He walked one whole lap with the kids. Jim Oswald, spokesman for the Marine Mammal Center, said that the centre would try to find him a home to minimise his contact with humans, which could be a danger to both the sea lion as well as humans. “This just shows the effect human contact can have,” Oswald told AP. “It’s not a happy story for Astro.”
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