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The Center in the News 2012
May 16, 2012
Gray Whale Rescued from Crab Pot Lines by Whale Entanglement Team - KWMR-FM
Marine Mammal Center volunteer Kathi Koontz tells George Clyde that two sets of crab gear and a rope through its mouth held the whale until freed from the entanglement with a single cut.
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May 15, 2012
Marine Mammal Center Helps Free Gray Whale Off of Dillon Beach - Marin IJ
Rescuers from the Marine Mammal Center and federal agencies freed a young gray whale entangled in crab pot lines near Dillon Beach on Monday afternoon.
May 3, 2012
Researchers Test California Sea Lion Kidney's for Disease - The Daily Astorian
When men and women in orange wet suits showed up at the East End Mooring Basin and started prodding at California sea lions caught in floating pens, some people wondered whether the mammals were being executed. Instead, they were researchers from the Marine Mammal Center were taking urine and blood samples to test for a pathogen that causes kidney disease.
“We’ve been doing sampling from Southern California up to Washington,” said Denise Greig, a researcher with the center in Sausalito, Calif. “We do have to sedate them for the urine sample, because it involves a catheter.”
May 3, 2012
Alcatraz Sea Lion Released by The Marine Mammal Center - Huffington Post
A baby sea lion pup made headlines when he was found starving and disoriented in a dangerous commuter ferry crossing spot near the Alcatraz Island last month. After a valiant effort, rescuers at Sausalito's Marine Mammal Center captured the embattled pup, and gave him the only name they saw fit: Al Catraz.
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April 19, 2012
Elephant Seal Birth Defects Due to Near Extinction - San Francisco Chronicle
With her dewy brown eyes, velvety fur and glossy whiskers, TVA is a lovely specimen of an elephant seal.
Except for the hunchback.
The month-old pinniped - rescued in Tennessee Cove, part of Marin County's Tennessee Valley, and now undergoing treatment at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito - has an extra vertebra in her spine, bulging into a pronounced hump on her blubbery back.
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April 18, 2012
Starving Elephant Seal Pups at The Marine Mammal Center - CNN/KPIX-TV
Officials at The Marine Mammal Center say about twice as many starving elephant seal pups have turned up this year.
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April 6, 2012
Elephant Seals Invade The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito - NBC 11
The belching, screeching, wailing sounds filled the air of the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito Friday. Visitors snickered at the rude blasts bounding across the concrete pens where dozens of elephant seal pups were recuperating.
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April 6, 2012
Sickly Sea Lion and Seals Recover at The Marine Mammal Center - KTVU-TV
He was rescued from the rock and almost didn't survive! This unusual patient wasn't an escapee, he was just a little starving California sea lion.
April 6, 2012
Sea Lion Pup Rescued from Alcatraz - San Jose Mercury News
Marin County's Marine Mammal Center has been caring for a sea lion pup that was rescued from a dock on Alcatraz Island two weeks ago, spokesman Jim Oswald said. The barely 1-year-old sea lion, named "Al Catraz" by the center, was spotted on the dock on March 21 and arrived at the marine mammal center severely underweight.
March 31, 2012
Short on Funding - Letters to the editor - San Luis Obispo Tribune
Annually, The Marine Mammal Center treats hundreds of sick or injured marine mammals along the California coast, with a large number of patients coming from San Luis Obispo County. Nationwide, marine mammal rehabilitation facilities, primarily nonprofits, are coordinated through NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service and respond to more than 5,000 animals each year.
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March 19, 2012
Seal Pupping Season - NPR - KQED-FM
Harbor and elephant seals along the California coast have begun their pupping season, and experts with Marin County's Marine Mammal Center are urging people not to disturb seal pups they spot on the beach. Instead, the Center asks people to call their 24-hour hotline, so experts can determine if the seals are sick or abandoned.
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January 26, 2012
Marine Mammals Head Back to Sea - San Luis Obispo Tribune
Rascal, a rare Guadalupe fur seal yearling, and Beige, a California sea lion juvenile, headed for the sea Wednesday at Leffingwell Landing in Cambria after being treated at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. Beige had been spotted Jan. 7 by equestrians riding in Montaña de Oro State Park. Rascal was rescued a day later from Coleman Beach in Bodega Bay.
Scientists later determined that Beige was ill and injured. Rascal was malnourished.
According to Shelbi Stoudt, stranding manager for the center, Rascal is only the 48th Guadalupe fur seal admitted to the mammal center’s clinic since 1975. The species is found on Guadalupe Island in the Channel Islands.
January 19, 2012
Monk Seal Hospital Closer to Reality - The Garden Island
LIHU‘E — Misunderstood by some, hated by few and loved by many, Hawaiian monk seals have an experienced and influential ally on the Mainland who is willing to add a milestone step in the fight against the extinction of Hawai‘i’s official state mammal.
The Marine Mammal Center, based in Sausalito, Calif., received two anonymous donations at the beginning of the year totaling $650,000, to be used toward a new Hawaiian Monk Seal Healthcare Facility in Kailua-Kona.
January 13, 2012
Elephant Seal 'Mr. Elusive' Caught on Point Reyes Beach, Strap Removed from Neck - Marin IJ
After two years of failed attempts, biologists in the Point Reyes National Seashore captured an elusive northern elephant seal this week and removed a thick white packing strap that had become cinched around its neck.
January 3, 2012
Whale Washed Ashore at Remote Beach in Point Reyes - Marin Scope
High tides are preventing scientists from reaching a dead whale that washed up in a remote part of the Point Reyes National Seashore earlier this week.
The Minke whale, which researchers think might be a female, was reported on Tuesday in an area near Alamere Falls, said Marine Mammal Center spokesman Jim Oswald.
A team from the California Academy of Sciences and the Marine Mammal Center attempted to reach the whale on Thursday, but the carcass was too far out in the water and the tide was too high, Oswald said. In addition, it was in an advanced state of decomposition, he said.
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