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Mar 15

Seal and Sea Lions: Diet – WJBF-TV

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RIVERBANKS ZOO (WJBF) Are you looking for a wild way to start your day? Its Wild Encounters where we go behind the scenes at Riverbanks Zoo giving you a great look at some of the cool things the animals do, what the zookeepers do and give you some unique looks which you wouldnt normally see.

So were starting off with one of their newest exhibits, maybe you havent seen it yet. Its the seals and sea lions.

Alyson tells us a little bit about seals and sea lions.

Well, we actually have five California sea lions, four of those are male, one is female. And then we have one harbor seal, so hes our lone wolf but he definitely runs the pool.

Alright, so tell us, I guess, the different between the seals and the sea lions.

So, the seal is smaller. They kind of max out at two to three hundred pounds. The sea lions can get anywhere up to eight hundred pounds or so. Our largest right now is Baja. Hes our full grown. Hes fourteen years old but he weighs probably about five hundred and sixty pounds.

So thats athats a pretty big animal, so a lot goes into feeding them, so how much about do they eat every day then?

Well, Baja, he currently gets thirty two pounds of food. Anywhere under that, Gambit only gets about seven, thats our seal, so its a range from there but we actually do have to adjust their food on a regular basis because they can gain weight so quickly and lose weight so quickly that were constantly getting weights on them and constantly changing what their diet is.

Alright, so we have some of this food here right behind us so explain to us what we have here in the buckets for them that they eat every day.

So this is actually their morning training food, so theres more food in our fridges back here, so this is an example of what they would get for their morning training sessions. So we have three types of fish here. We have capelin, we have squid and we have cut herring.

And we were talking earlier before we started filming, some of them have squid in here and some dont and its not for something specific other than some of them just dont like squid.

Yes, sometimes a mammal just doesnt really care for a type of fish and thats ok. We just work around it.

Right, so, I mean, its just like people. Its not like you just throw out the same food and theyre all ok with it. Some of them have particular taste so we make sure they avoid that. And also, we have some vitamins back here for them as well. What are we looking at?

Yep, so back here, they need supplements just like we do. They dont necessarily eat all the fish that they would in the wild so we have a couple different types of vitamins that we give them. Theres vitamin E. Theres vitamin B. And then over here, these blue ones are actually just called Sea Tabs.

Were learning about what theyre eating but with seals and sea lions, theyre intelligent animals. They can do some cool stuff. Theyre fun to watch, so of course, were going to see some of that training coming up.

In the next edition of Wild Encounters two weeks from now, well have a look at their training. Well see them in action and give you an idea of what when you come to Riverbanks Zoo, you can see.

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