The Marine Mammal Center is a rescue and rehabil- itation center for marine mammals. The Marine Mammal Center usually cares for sea lions and a variety of seals. The reason for caring for the animals is usually poor health, injuries, malnutrition, and in the case of pups, abandonment. Currently the Marine Mammal Center is caring for thirty-five northern sea lions, twenty-one pacific harbor seals, five northern elephant seals, one steller sea lion, and one Guadalupe fur seal. The number of patients changes during a release of the animals back into the wild. This happens every few months, because the goal of the Marine Mammal Center is not to ever keep a seal or sea lion, but to get them back into the wild as soon as possible.
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