{"id":38625,"date":"2025-04-12T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/inside-the-fight-to-save-californias-dying-sea-lions-from-toxic-algae-were-like-911-operators\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:55:32","slug":"inside-the-fight-to-save-californias-dying-sea-lions-from-toxic-algae-were-like-911-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/inside-the-fight-to-save-californias-dying-sea-lions-from-toxic-algae-were-like-911-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the fight to save California\u2019s dying sea lions from toxic algae: \u2018We\u2019re like 911 operators\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chance of the marine animal\u2019s survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and this year, the outbreak has sickened hundreds<\/p>\n<p>It was just after 8am on Tuesday, a thick morning fog still clinging to the California coastline, and SeaWorld\u2019s animal rescue team had already made their first save of the day: a hefty, sick-looking sea lion that had been waddling dangerously close to a four-lane highway in downtown San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a private area of SeaWorld that few of the theme park\u2019s thousands of daily visitors ever get to see, the rescue team was in full \u201ctriage\u201d mode. Half a dozen staff members maneuvered the caged sea lion off the bed of a truck, and grabbed IV bags full of fluids and vitamins.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/12\/california-sea-lions-domoic-acid-poisoning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chance of the marine animal\u2019s survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and this year, the outbreak has sickened hundreds It was just after 8am on Tuesday, a thick morning fog still clinging to the California coastline, and SeaWorld\u2019s animal rescue team had already made their first save of the day: a hefty, sick-looking &#8230; <a title=\"Inside the fight to save California\u2019s dying sea lions from toxic algae: \u2018We\u2019re like 911 operators\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/inside-the-fight-to-save-californias-dying-sea-lions-from-toxic-algae-were-like-911-operators\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Inside the fight to save California\u2019s dying sea lions from toxic algae: \u2018We\u2019re like 911 operators\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}