Tough to be a sea lion

I used to think that the sea lions at the Prospect Park Zoo had an okay life, that is an okay life for an animal kept in a zoo, but yesterday seeing them surrounded by hundreds of kids making sea lion noises sounds was a bit jarring. They seemed to be in hiding. There must have been at least twenty school groups there. It wasn't the outing I had in mind,  so Willa and I left after checking that no sea lion had become a stowaway.