The California sea lion in Auckland Zoo can be found at The Coast. This exhibit was designed to recre­ate a New Zealand Coastal ecosys­tem fea­tur­ing a beach and a large pool for Cal­i­for­nia sea lion as well as the native Fur Seal (kekeno in Maori lan­guage; Arc­to­cephalus forsteri), fea­tur­ing an enor­mous under­wa­ter view­ing win­dow, and an aviary for lit­tle blue pen­guins and other native shore­birds. The Cal­i­for­nia sea lions on dis­play were born at Auck­land Zoo in the 1990s and will be taken care of for the rest of their lives. And although not found in New Zealand waters, they face many of the same threats as their New Zealand cousins and there­fore are as good an ambas­sador for bio­di­ver­sity and ecosys­tem health as a native marine mam­mal. Yoy can see one such ambas­sador in this video flying through the fil­tered salt water tank with a cir­cu­lat­ing supply.