Category: Animals

Shaquille O’Seal is going back in the game!

Jun 9, 2016 gray seal

Shaquille O’seal or Shaq, as he’s know throughout the hospital, is headed back to his home! When the New England Aquarium Stranding Response staff first encountered Shaq all of our hospital beds were full. Their staff relocated him to another beach where they hoped he would be left alone by bystanders to rest and recover. […]

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Kemp’s Ridley Beginnings

May 23, 2016 arribada

If you have visited the National Marine Life Center before, you might have had chance to meet some of our Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle patients. Kemp’s Ridleys travel to the Massachusetts coast in the fall because food is more abundant here this time of year. When winter hits, the turtles know it’s time to head […]

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Russeall Crowe Release!

May 19, 2016 gray seal

The day of March 31st  International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) received reports of multiple seals stranding along Brewster beaches. After IFAW personnel ran from beach to beach to follow up on these reports of sickly seals, they eventually realized that it was all the same seal! Now known as “Russeall Crowe,” was beach hopping […]

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A Chelonian Log: the story of cold-stunned sea turtles; Nicky & Jedi

May 19, 2016 cold stunned

Part I.  Stranding The tide is high and the waves attempt to lap at the volunteer’s boots as he stumbles his way across the beach fighting the rain and wind.  He tries to block all skin from the pelting rain and blowing sand while the fabric of his rain pants and jacket billows around him. […]

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Help Support Onion’s Satellite Tag!

May 8, 2016 harbor seal

For “Onion Flake,” everything that could go wrong, did. Onion Flake is a juvenile male harbor seal that stranded on Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts on September 17, 2015. He was rescued by the International Fund For Animal Welfare and admitted to the National Marine Life Center’s marine animal hospital the same day. Onion […]

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Mother’s Day Seal Release Planned!

May 5, 2016 gray seal

Sealvester Stallone and Vin Dieseal  are headed back into action! This weekend they will be starring in their final adventure with NMLC, they are both being released! “Sealvester Stallone,” a weanling gray seal, was brought to us March 18 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Stallone was found on Gooseberry Island and was critically dehydrated, […]

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Our Seal-ebrity Line Up!

Apr 28, 2016 Celine Dion

Things have been action packed here at NMLC and we have five new Seal-ebrities to add to our hall of fame! “Sealvester Stallone,” a gray weanling seal, was brought to us March 18 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Stallone was found on Gooseberry Island and was critically dehydrated, malnourished, and had lesions […]

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Easter Weekend Seal Release!

Mar 31, 2016 Frank Sealnatra

Frank Sealnatra, a harp seal weanling, was released just in time for Easter! Frank was rescued late February of this year in cooperation with the IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue Team. What started out as a typical Harp seal case of being underweight and dehydrated accompanied with seal lice, became more complicated upon discovering he had pneumonia caused […]

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Seal Pup Shower Saturday April 16, 2016

Mar 16, 2016 event

We’re expecting here at the National Marine Life Center- the harbor seal pups are on their way! Late April-June is harbor seal pupping season in New England and one of the busiest times for our rehabilitation staff. Each year many pups are abandoned by their mothers, often due to human interaction and will not survive […]

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