Marine biologists at the University of California at Santa Cruz are training sea lions to research whales. Scientists have known for a long time that abnormally whales behave abnormally when approached by human observers., Bbut there was no alternative to the imperfect information collected from ships or by divers and submarines. If the Santa Cruz project succeeds, however, sea lions, who frequently swim with whales in the wild, werill be able to brecord videotaping of their larger neighbors. Alternatively, scientists will be able to study the tapes to learn how whales behave when humans are not present.