A wayward northern fur seal pup was rescued from the streets of San Rafael on Saturday and brought into the care of the Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Heart, officers mentioned.
The San Rafael Police Division first acquired a name about an otter within the space of East Francisco Boulevard and Grange Manner.
A northern fur seal pup was rescued from the streets on San Rafael, Calif., on Oct. 30, 2021.
San Rafael Police DivisionOfficers discovered the animal, who turned out to be a seal, crossing a roadway and narrowly escaping automobiles. They named the seal “Ivy.”
Northern fur seals are a threatened species and their inhabitants went from about 2.1 million within the Nineteen Fifties to 1.1 million at the moment. They spend virtually all of their time within the open ocean greater than 600 miles off the coast, coming ashore to breed or if they’re sick, the Marine Mammal Heart mentioned.
A northern fur seal pup was rescued from the streets on San Rafael, Calif., on Oct. 30, 2021.
San Rafael Police DivisionThis species inhabit waters all through the Pacific, from Japan to the Channel Islands of California.
The Farallon Islands off San Francisco have been a breeding space “earlier than the species was hunted extensively for his or her luxurious fur within the late 1800s,” the middle mentioned.
After a 100-plus-year absence, the seals returned to breed on the islands once more in current many years. After a pup was born there in 1996, the Farallon Islands went onto to turn out to be a longtime rookery by 2006, the middle mentioned.
