Here’s an excerpt from commentary about the video:
“Wildlife experts are concerned about the health of sea lion pups in California this year.
Sarah Wilkin, the marine mammal stranding coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told Global Post that five times the usual number of the baby animals are coming into the Southern Californian coastline weak and near death.
‘Nobody was quite prepared for the scope of this,’ said Wilkin. ‘The major common factor for all these stranded pups is that they’re coming in emaciated, dehydrated, basically starving.
‘They have been unable to find enough food to sustain themselves.’”