{"id":831551,"date":"2026-08-31T04:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:50:10","slug":"growing-number-of-sea-lions-fall-ill-amid-domoic-acid-surge-along-california-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/831551\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing number of sea lions fall ill amid domoic acid surge along California coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">More and more sea lions are getting sick on the Central Coast and Bay Area amid a surge of domoic acid, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Over a three-day span this week, the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito says they rescued 15 to 20 sick sea lions and they expect that number to grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Many are having seizures, disorientation, and abnormal behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">So far, there&#8217;s no answer to why cases are going up, but beachgoers are being warned to keep an eye out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;They are not their normal selves. Wild animals are already unpredictable and especially so when they have an algal toxin that&#8217;s impacting both their memory and cognitive portion of how they behave, but also increases potentially unpredictable behavior,&#8221; said Giancarlo Rulli, of the Marine Mammal Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At least three sea lions were found dead in Monterey County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Marine Mammal Center is urging the public to contact them if they encounter a sea lion in distress, rather than approaching the animal themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More and more sea lions are getting sick on the Central Coast and Bay Area amid a surge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[352175,79,201],"class_list":["post-831551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-352175","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}