Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Cotolo, sea lion, held at Bay
CORTE MADERA, Calif. — Author Frank Cotolo and a sea lion joined schoolchildren on a walk-a-thon.
The marine mammal apparently noticed children doing laps around a course they had set up at the Marin Country Day School next to the shores of the San Francisco Bay. Cotolo, back in the states for the first time in at least a month following the conclusion of his epic novel, The Complete and Unabridged History of Japan, was reportedly in the area to do a short film with aging health-icon, Jack La Lanne.
The marine mammal apparently noticed children doing laps around a course they had set up at the Marin Country Day School next to the shores of the San Francisco Bay. Cotolo, back in the states for the first time in at least a month following the conclusion of his epic novel, The Complete and Unabridged History of Japan, was reportedly in the area to do a short film with aging health-icon, Jack La Lanne.
The 185-pound Steller sea lion, called Astro by the Marine Mammal Center, waddled ashore after his mother abandoned him at Ano Nuevo Island off the San Mateo coast, prompting biologists to bottle-feed him before tossing him back in the drink.
But Astro, much like Cotolo, keeps returning to civilization. "Sea lions," said sea-lion expert Maury Walls, "are very intuitive, like Cotolo, and are able to find their ways back to have run-ins with humans."
