PHOTOS: Inside a Sea Lion Hospital

Sea lion strandings are becoming far too commonplace on the West Coast.

SeaWorld employees have left their current posts to travel to California and assist with the #2015SeaLionCrisis, but they’re just one of many organizations that showed up to help.

Thanks to TIME, we’re able to get an inside look at the hospitals in California attending to the sea lions and seals. This is the Marine Mammal Center.

Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, California.

Volunteers tube-feed a malnourished harbor seal pup at the Marine Mammal Center.

A harbor seal pup wears a plastic “hat tag,” used to identify individual animals at the Marine Mammal Center.

Director of Veterinary Science Dr. Shawn Johnson listens to the lungs of a young sea lion under anesthesia.

A California sea lion pup undergoes surgery for a lymph node abscess at the Marine Mammal Center.

Seals and sea lions released back into their natural habitat are added to annual graduation posters at the Marine Mammal Center.

Students on a field trip learn what to do if they find a stranded seal on the beach.

A malnourished elephant seal pup looks outside a pen at the Marine Mammal Center.

The Marine Mammal Center sits where the U.S. military once had a missile site outside San Francisco, in the Marin Headlands, Calif.

All photos from Marine Mammal Center, California, May 2014. Photo credit: Corey Arnold for TIME.