Ocean Animal Emergency
Description
The world's oceans are in trouble. Warming seas and man-made pollutants are combining to unleash toxic algae blooms that are decimating whales, sea lions and other marine mammals. In a high-action film, NOVA explores this crisis through the exploits of Dr. Frances Gulland, a San Francisco veterinarian who runs the equivalent of a West Coast ER for marine mammals. On a typical day, listless sea lions flop on their sides, too exhausted to lift their heads. Others are agitated. Another chews obsessively on a flipper. They are all victims of a marine neurotoxin made by an organism that feeds on algae. Dr. Gulland is committed to saving these sick animals one at a time, but she is also desperately trying to figure out what's killing them.
Runtime
52 min 45 sec
Subjects
- Pollution (254)
- Life sciences (447)
- Marine biology (129)
- Aquatic sciences (23)
- Marine sciences (62)
- Water (318)
- Marine animals (41)
- Biology (601)
- Marine plants (22)
- Environmental sciences (779)
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