在加利福尼亚停车场发现的小海豹正在休息

在加利福尼亚停车场发现的小海豹正在休息

Firefighters in Redwood City, California, got a call about a lost visitor in a parking deck. It was a northern fur seal baby without a mother — a true fish out of water.

加州雷德伍德市的消防队员接到一通电话，说有一位游客在停车场迷路了。这是一个没有妈妈的北方海狗宝宝——一个离开水的真鱼。

The firefighters rescued the pup — which they named Santos — and took him back to the fire station where he was picked up by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito for monitoring and treatment.

消防队员救出了这只名叫桑托斯的小狗，并把它带回了消防站，索萨利托的海洋哺乳动物中心对它进行了监控和治疗。

Initially, they gave the pup alone time for a day to let it decompress.

起初，他们给“小朋友”一天的时间让它减压。

Santos the rescued northern fur seal rests at The Marine Mammal Center. (Photo: © The Marine Mammal Center)

An exam by the center's veterinarians revealed the pup is a male in decent health and weighs 25 pounds.

该中心兽医的检查显示，这只小海豹是一只健康状况良好的公海豹，体重25磅。

They are currently tube-feeding Santos a fish formula three times a day. How the seal responds when volunteers offer fish will determine the next step. Veterinarians will decide later this week whether to move Santos from his temporary quarantine pen to a standard rehabilitation pool pen to continue his treatment. At that time, trained volunteer crews will begin to offer sustainably caught herring to try and induce normal foraging behavior, according to an update from the center.

目前，它们每天三次用管子给桑托斯喂鱼。当志愿者喂鱼时，海豹的反应将决定下一步的行动。兽医们将在本周晚些时候决定是否将桑托斯从临时隔离围栏转移到标准的康复池围栏继续治疗。根据该中心的最新消息，届时，受过训练的志愿者团队将开始提供可持续捕捞的鲱鱼，以尝试诱导正常的觅食行为。

They may also introduce him to the center's other northern fur seal pups in hopes it will learn to eat well on his own.

他们可能还会把它介绍给中心的其他北方海豹幼崽，希望它们能自己学会吃得好。

Santos is gently restrained by a trained animal care volunteer prior to a tube feeding at The Marine Mammal Center. (Photo: © The Marine Mammal Center)

Because northern fur seals are born in June, it's likely that Santos is about 5 months old.

因为北方海豹出生在六月，所以桑托斯大概有五个月大。

"It may have been separated from mom and took a wrong turn," Rulli says.

“它可能和妈妈分开了，走错了方向，”Rulli说。

There's some speculation that the animal may have sought refuge in the garage, which is about a block and a half from a creek, according to SFGate.

有人猜测，这只动物可能是在车库中避难，据SFGate称，车库距离一条小溪约一个半街区。

Fortunately, the pup appears to be responsive and alert, though not overly active. If all goes well, the pup will eventually be released. It will depend on how quickly he starts to forage on his own and how healthy he is.

幸运的是，这只小海豹看起来反应敏捷，但并不十分活跃。如果一切顺利，这只小海豹最终将被释放。这取决于它开始自己觅食的速度有多快，以及它有多健康。

"We want to make sure we send it back with ample fat reserves and the ability to find appropriate food sources," Rulli says. "It could be weeks, it could be months."

Rulli说:“我们想确保我们把它送回的时候有足够的脂肪储备和找到合适食物来源的能力。可能是几周，也可能是几个月。”

The seal pup is incredibly cute and is attracting lots of headlines, but Rulli cautions that people should never approach wildlife in a similar situation.

这只小海豹非常可爱，吸引了很多头条新闻，但Rulli警告说，人们不应该在类似的情况下接近野生动物。

"The best thing to do is to keep your distance if you're not using your zoom on your camera, you're too close," Rulli says. "It's important that people keep their distance and call their marine mammal responder or local police department."

“最好的办法是保持距离，如果你不用你的变焦镜头，你离得太近了，”Rulli说。“重要的是人们要保持距离，打电话给他们的海洋哺乳动物急救员或当地警察局。”