Overview
- Security guards and a Mountain View police officer responded Jan. 5 after a sea lion pup wandered onto Garcia Avenue and into a parking lot.
- Officer McPherson guided the animal out of traffic and placed it in her patrol vehicle for transport to The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
- The center named the pup Babymac and initially found him malnourished, very weak, and too young to be on his own.
- Babymac was placed in intensive care quarantine and has since improved enough to transfer out, according to the center.
- Officials say he remains in rehabilitation and is not yet strong enough for a potential release, a status they highlighted in social posts crediting Mountain View police.