{"id":11655,"date":"2017-05-30T12:42:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T19:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=11655"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:28:55","slug":"working-with-mer-dogs-aka-california-sea-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2017\/05\/30\/working-with-mer-dogs-aka-california-sea-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with “mer-dogs” aka California Sea Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"mason<\/em>By Mason Cole, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/h3>\n

This post is part of Dr. Gitte McDonald\u2019s marine mammal class blog series.<\/em><\/p>\n

MLML Director Dr. Jim Harvey likes to say that harbor seals are the \u201ccats of the sea\u201d.\u00a0 If that\u2019s true, then California sea lions are the rambunctious young puppy dogs of the sea. \u00a0But not those little baby fluff-ball puppies; no, more like that almost-full-grown, 90-pound wrecking ball.<\/p>\n

Many a commercial fisherman would cringe to read this, but I love working with sea lions.\u00a0 They earned their place in my mind as \u201cmer-dogs\u201d for more than just their energy and enthusiasm: they are also particularly intelligent, with striking personalities and an impressive capacity to learn trained behavior.<\/p>\n

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Nemo with his prize herring - good boy! \u00a0(Photo credit: Mason Cole.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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By Mason Cole, Vertebrate Ecology Lab This post is part of Dr. Gitte McDonald\u2019s marine mammal class blog series. MLML Director Dr. Jim Harvey likes to say that harbor seals are the \u201ccats of the sea\u201d.\u00a0 If that\u2019s true, then California sea lions are the rambunctious young puppy dogs of the sea. \u00a0But not those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[170,310],"class_list":["post-11655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-marine-mammals","tag-vertebrate-ecology-lab"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11655"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20919,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11655\/revisions\/20919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}