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SAN DIEGO (FOX5\/KUSI) \u2014 SeaWorld San Diego is celebrating two exciting new arrivals: a female bottlenose dolphin calf and a female California sea lion pup.<\/p>\n

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The dolphin calf was born June 21 and is thriving alongside her mother, Sofi, and grandmother, Sandy, giving guests a rare chance to see three generations of dolphins together at Dolphin Stadium.<\/p>\n

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Just days earlier, on June 15, a female California sea lion pup was born to first-time mother Phoenix. The pup is currently growing behind the scenes under the care of SeaWorld’s animal specialists and is expected to make her public debut in the coming months.<\/p>\n

SeaWorld says both births highlight the success of its long-term animal care and conservation programs. Names for the dolphin calf and sea lion pup will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (FOX5\/KUSI) \u2014 SeaWorld San Diego is celebrating two exciting new arrivals: a female bottlenose dolphin calf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[140935,17570,106095,74,76,75,16192],"class_list":["post-394409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-bottlenose-dolphin","tag-california-sea-lion","tag-photo-courtesy","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-seaworld-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}