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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject: Sea lion joins California schoolchildren's walk-a-thon |
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Sea lion joins California schoolchildren's walk-a-thon
POSTED: 10:52 a.m. EDT, May 13, 2007
Story Highlights� The 185-pound Steller sea lion waddles ashore, does lap in walk-a-thon
CORTE MADERA, California (AP) -- He has flippers instead of feet -- and certainly no sneakers or hiking boots. But that didn't stop a sea lion from joining schoolchildren on a walk-a-thon.
The marine mammal apparently noticed children doing laps Friday morning around a course they had set up at the Marin Country Day School next to the shores of the San Francisco Bay. The 185-pound Steller sea lion waddled ashore, shocking students and teachers.
"He did a whole lap," said Kelly Watson, director of constituent relations and web communications at the private school.
It was the latest brush with humans for the 1-year-old sea lion, called Astro by staffers at the Marin Headlands-based Marine Mammal Center.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/13/walking.sea.lion.ca.ap/index.html |
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