{"id":453,"date":"2008-01-23T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/la-jolla-sea-lions\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T02:17:20","slug":"la-jolla-sea-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/la-jolla-sea-lions.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of La Jolla Sea Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a big spawning aggregation of market squid<\/a> assembled on the sand flats at about 60′ off of La Jolla Shores beach right now. As a consequence, many California sea lions<\/a> (Zalophus californianus<\/a><\/em>) are now in the area, feeding on the squid and hauling out on rocks to rest when not foraging. Here are a couple seen recently in La Jolla:<\/p>\n

\"Sea<\/a><\/p>\n

Sea lion portrait, hauled out on rocks beside the ocean.
\nImage ID: 20207<\/a>
\nSpecies: California sea lion<\/a>, Zalophus californianus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: La Jolla<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"California<\/a><\/p>\n

California sea lion, adult male.
\nImage ID: 20211<\/a>
\nSpecies: California sea lion<\/a>, Zalophus californianus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: La Jolla<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a big spawning aggregation of market squid assembled on the sand flats at about 60′ off of La Jolla Shores beach right now. As a consequence, many California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) are now in the area, feeding on the squid and hauling out on rocks to rest…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,192],"tags":[266,310,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-la-jolla","8":"category-sea-lion","9":"tag-la-jolla","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-sea-lions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}