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“He’s kind of out of the ordinary,” Ms. Gill said of Chonkers. “He is probably just very food-motivated.”
On the Farallon Islands, Steller sea lions and their smaller counterparts, the California sea lion, compete intensely for food, Ms. Gill said.

“Chonkers is kind of just working smarter and not harder,” she added, “trying to find the easy, safe place where there’s less competition, less predators.” At Pier 39, Ms. Gill said, Chonkers is “king of the dock.”

“When he’s sitting on the dock, he’s so big compared to the others,” Ms. Chandor said. “He makes them all look like little kittens.”