A happy young girl shares hugs with a California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) who wraps her in his foreflippers at the Theater of the Sea, a marine mammal park in the Florida Keys, USA. Sea lions are easy to train to do a variety of tricks, which they perform daily in aquatic shows for visitors. These social animals can live an average of 30 years in captivity; in the wild their life span is approximately 20 years.
A happy young girl shares hugs with a California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) who wraps her in his foreflippers at the Theater of the Sea, a marine mammal park in the Florida Keys, USA. Sea lions are easy to train to do a variety of tricks, which they perform daily in aquatic shows for visitors. These social animals can live an average of 30 years in captivity; in the wild their life span is approximately 20 years.
Size: 2507px × 3600px
Location: Islamorada, Monroe County, Florida Keys, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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