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Bay Nature: A Whale's Death Shows Us the Way Marine Giants Live

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A Whale's Death Shows Us the Way Marine Giants Live

Published by Bay Nature: April 30, 2020

“When a whale washes up it’s kind of like being a doctor on call,” says Moe Flannery, senior collections manager at the California Academy of Sciences. Flannery’s day job means caring for more than 140,000 bird and mammal specimens at the Academy, but she is also a first responder when marine mammals wash ashore. 

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