Whales are textbook beauty and grace—and they’re a helluva lot of work to clean up when they die. Today, we’re diving into one of the most bizarre, smelly, and heartbreaking jobs in the world: working on a marine animal stranding response team.
Thanks to Dr. Susan Barco and Dr. Alex Costidis at The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Stranding Response Program, here are a few curiosities you’ll uncover in this episode:
Did You Know?
For every foot in length, a whale weighs about two thousand pounds.
To learn more about the stranding response team and how you can support them (as well as how to take a whale watching tour), please visit these links:
https://www.virginiaaquarium.com/research-and-conservation/stranding-response
https://www.virginiaaquarium.com/support/give-to-stranding
https://www.virginiaaquarium.com/things-to-do/boat-tours
https://www.virginiaaquarium.com/blog/whale-watching-boat-tours
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A special thanks to Brennan Tapp for assisting in this episode's field recordings, and Mackenzie DiNardo (PR Manager at the VA Aquarium) for helping make all this happen.
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