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Sea Lion Joins Students In Walk-A-Thon
POSTED: 4:08 pm PDT May 12,
2007
UPDATED: 4:25 pm PDT May 12,
2007
CORTE MADERA, Calif. -- He has flippers instead of feet and certainly no sneakers or hiking boots. But that didn't stop a very determined sea lion from joining schoolchildren on a walk Friday in Corte Madera. The 185-pound sea lion waddled ashore at Marin Country Day School, near San Francisco Bay, where he completed a full lap of a walk-a-thon.
Staffers at the nearby Marine Mammal Center call the 1-year-old sea lion Astro. He was abandoned in June and bottle-fed by biologists, who released him April 25 with a radio tag. Astro swum with elephant seals between Point Reyes and the Farallon Islands but keeps returning to shore. Nearly a week ago, he swam back to Corte Madera, where biologists picked him up and released him in the Farallons. He returned again Friday in time for the walk-a-thon. The Marine Mammal Center will try to find him a permanent home, possibly the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, which keeps threatened Steller sea lions.
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