2024 Season
The first harbor seal to strand this season.
Who is Sandia?
Vibrations detected by these help harbor seals find prey in dark or murky water
What is vibrissae?
What is the charting abbreviation for when an animal eats well in the pool, but swallows fish slowly.
What is FF slowly?
The final harbor seal shift of the 2024 season was supervised on this crew.
What was Wednesday Day Harbors Crew.
The maximum length of time of an enrichment session.
What is 60 minutes?
Comparatively, there were double the amount of male or female harbor seals this season.
What were females?
Harbor seals don't drink water - they obtain the water they need from this.
What is their food (diet)?
The required minimum volunteer hours needed before requesting enrollment in Med Level 1.
What is 50 hours?
The harbors crew with the highest number of topside supervisors.
What is Sunday Night Harbors Crew.
An item used to disguise medication in a fish when an animal is difficult to medicate.
What is a gel cap?
The smallest harbor seal to strand and survive.
Who is Gummybear?
Harbor seals molt this many times a year.
What is once a year (annually)?
Where is the location to find milk matrix when there is none left in the topside walk in freezer.
Where is the cold box (OWCN freezer)?
This harbors crew celebrated a supervisor giving birth to her very first pup this season.
What is Tuesday Night Crew?
The crash kit should be checked at this point in time while on your shift.
What is at the beginning of your shift or immediately after the crash kit is used?
The most amount of weight gained by a harbor seal this season.
What is 22.2kgs?
Harbor seals can dive to depths of this deep (in feet).
What is approximately 1600 ft?
Once over 10kgs, a harbor seal should be weighed using this.
What is a seal barrow?
Our longest standing active supervisor started volunteering in this year.
What is 1999?
A newer free feeder does not eat. Do you hand feed the animal?
Communicate to vet staff. Depending on the body condition and health of the pup, vet staff may forego the feeding or have you tube feed the pup. Often skipping a meal or receiving a tube feeding is better than regressing the animal and teaching him once again that fish comes from human hands.