Orphan Nick has a new home.
Thursday the Denver Zoo unveiled Nick, a sea lion pup found orphaned last summer off the California coast.
Nick was initially hand-fed by staff at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center and gradually introduced to fish. He’s now just over a year old and weighs 117 pounds, the Denver Zoo said in a news release. That’s a lot more than the 18 pounds he weighed when he was found in June 2007 with his umbilical cord still attached, but he’s got a long way to go to reach his adult weight of 600 pounds.
Nick arrived in Denver on March 31 aboard a chartered plane and has been spending the past several months “getting to know his new caretakers,” the zoo said. He can be seen at the Denver Zoo’s outdoor harbor seal/sea lion pool with three other sea lions, Gidget, Pam and Luci.
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