Young sea lions, a boy and a girl, were born at the zoo Brookfield (about 21 miles from Chicago).
While the cubs not shown to visitors, because they are strongly attached to their mothers and learn to swim. For several weeks the cubs will learn to swim well, and usually the mother watching them from five months to a year. The names of the cubs have not yet given.
One cub gave birth to a 7-year-old Josephine, the second to 9-year-old Ari. But the father of the cubs total — 14-year-old Tanner, reports ABC.
The mother of the cubs came to the zoo in different years. Josephine found on the pier in San Franciscowhen she was a little girl, her mother gave her up. She would have died from starvation if not rescued. She arrived in Brookfield in 2010, and since then she lives happily in the zoo.
Ari was found on the beach in Californiawhen she was about a year. After rehabilitation, the specialists said that it can’t be released back into the wild. In 2009 she was brought to Brookfield.
And the father of the cubs, Tanner, had to forcibly take from the wild. The lion was fed on the farms for the breeding of salmon in the dam area on the Columbia river.
The natural habitat of sea lions extends from Vancouver island in British Columbia (Canada) to Baja California (Mexico). Although the international Union for conservation of nature yet do not consider sea lions to endangered species, they are in constant danger.
This entanglement in fishing nets, and dumping of toxic waste, and climate change.
You’ll be seeing double @ Pinniped Point 2 #sealion pups, a girl & boy were born to Josephine & Arie. Moms & pups will be out soon #zooborns pic.twitter.com/yQGKuAmSTN
— Brookfield Zoo (@brookfield_zoo) June 20, 2017
