Baby sea lion rescued from busy California highway
Photo credit: California Highway Patrol
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A baby sea lion wandered onto a busy highway in South San Francisco Tuesday, stopping vehicles and alarming motorists before officials whisked it away.
SFGATE reports California Highway Patrol received the call around 8:30 a.m. Motorists had tried to shoo the sea lion to safer ground, with one man getting out of his car to herd the sea lion with a handkerchief.
Highway patrol succeeded in getting the animal into a patrol car, where pictures show the sea lion looked quite comfortable in the backseat.
"We opened the door and it just hopped right in," the California Highway Patrol wrote in a post on Facebook.
The sea lion may have come from a nearby creek.
It was taken to the Peninsula Humane Society and will be transported to the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California.
The sea lion will then move to a rehabilitation pool to recover.