Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals: An analysis of current views and practices.
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Date
1996
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Proceedings of a workshop held in Des Plaines, Illinois, 3-5 December 1991.Abstract
Stranded marine mammals have long attracted public attention. Those that wash up dead are, for all their value to science, seldom seen by the public as more than curiosities. Animals that are sick, injured, orphaned orabandoned ignite a different response. Generally, public sentiment supports any effort to rescue, treat and return them to sea.Institutions displaying marine mammals showed an early interest in live-stranded animals as a source of specimens -- in 1948, Marine Studios in St. Augustine, Florida, rescued a young short-finned pilot whale (Globicephalamacrorhynchus), the first ever in captivity (Kritzler 1952). Eventually, the public as well as government agencies looked to these institutions for their recognized expertise in marine mammal care and medicine. More recently,facilities have been established for the sole purpose of rehabilitating marine mammals and preparing them for return to the wild. Four such institutions are the Marine Mammal Center (Sausalito, CA), the Research Institute forNature Management (Pieterburen, The Netherlands), the RSPCA, Norfolk Wildlife Hospital (Norfolk, United Kingdom) and the Institute for Wildlife Biology of Christian-Albrects University (Kiel, Germany).(PDF contains 68 pages.)Issue/Article Nr
OPR-8Publisher or University
NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service/Office of Protected ResourcesSeries : Nr
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFSResource/Dataset Location
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/health/rescue.pdfCollections