“They are wild animals, but they don’t typically charge people just for the heck of it,” Davidoff said. ![]() “I looked to my left and I see a big sea lion just come out of the water and start charging and that’s when it turns to chaos,” Perez Estrada said. “Everyone was screaming and running around.” He swims the cove every day and captured video of the incident as he was getting out of the water. “I feel like people should educate themselves a little bit about the marine life here - what to do, what not to do, respect the sea lions, don’t touch them, don’t get in their space,” Japhet Perez Estrada, a La Jolla native and business owner, said to Nexstar’s KSWB on Monday. ![]() The incident happened as summer crowds, mostly tourists, overwhelmed the tiny, protected beach - one of the most iconic in California - trying to get up-close photos with the beautiful sea mammals and newly weaned pups. SAN DIEGO ( KSWB) – Beachgoers were startled by a sea lion that appeared to charge them at La Jolla Cove in San Diego Sunday evening, but one expert says the humans may not have been the intended target.
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