Right Whale Sedation Enables Disentanglement Effort

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 12:42 in Biology & Nature

For the first time ever, rescuers used a new sedation delivery system to help free an entangled North Atlantic right whale. The new system was developed at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in collaboration with NOAA and the Univ. of Florida and the Univ. of Wisconsin veterinary schools to make the animals more approachable by rescue boats.

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