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A marine biologist goes behind the scenes with the sea otters, seals, and sea lions of the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

00:00 - Sea Otter Behind the Scenes
00:57 - Oregon Coast Aquarium Tour
01:34 - Oregon Coast Aquarium Sea Otters
01:52 - Sea Otter Pups
03:04 - Oldest Living Harbor Seal
04:31 - Marine Mammal Rescue Centers
05:14 - Fur Seal Rescue
06:12 - World's Best Sea Otter Habitat
06:43 - Newport Aquarium
07:08 - Is the Oregon Coast Aquarium Nonprofit?
07:36 - KPassionate

UPDATE: The KPassionate community raised over $26,000 to help build a new marine life rescue center. While the live event is over, it isn't too late to help! You can donate directly to the Oregon Coast Aquarium here: https://streamlabscharity.com/oregon-...

Special thanks to the Oregon Coast Aquarium for providing additional footage as well as allowing me to tour their facility and speak with their marine mammalogy team. Learn more about the Aquarium here:
[1] https://aquarium.org/kpassionate-fund...
[2]    / orcoastaquarium  

Ranked among the top 10 aquariums in the country, Oregon Coast Aquarium is a "must see" for friends & families on every visit to Newport, Oregon. The aquarium is also one of just three wildlife rehabilitation facilities in the Pacific Northwest, and the only one in Oregon authorized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA to provide specialized care to endangered marine life like sea turtles, marine mammals, and sea birds. OCA is also one of only 13 organizations in the U.S. authorized to accept rescued sea otters.

Oregon Coast Aquarium rescues and rehabilitates about 300 animals annually. With this charity event, we are going to help expand their capacity and enable them to have a vet and vet tech on site, rather than contracted from other places like Oregon State University. This will help both their rehab program and their resident animals! Oregon Coast Aquarium hopes to start construction on a new Marine Wildlife Rehabilitation Center soon!

Named world class by USA Today , Oregon Coast Aquarium is home to over 60,000 animals across nearly 400 species. Including rays, sharks, jellyfish, and marine mammals like seals, sea lions, and sea otters.

Because I work with sea otters, I spent most of my time behind the scenes with OCA’s marine mammalogy team. Their incredibly staff introduced me to their resident otters, Oswald, Schuster, and Earle. All three sea otters were rescued by Monterey Bay Aquarium and deemed non-releasable after determining they lacked the skills to survive in the wild.

Senior marine mammalogist Megan was an integral part of sea otter Earle’s rescue and rehabilitation so I spoke with her about the sea otter pup's rescue story. She told me that while Monterey Bay Aquarium has an amazing sea otter surrogacy program, they did not have a surrogate mom available at the time of Earle's rescue so they knew he needed a home and the Oregon Coast Aquarium was happy to welcome him.
[1] https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/1...
[2] https://phys.org/news/2023-03-intimat...

I also spoke with the Assistant Curator of Marine Mammals about one of their more unique rescue stories that happened during a sea otter survey.
[1] https://aquarium.org/fur-seal-rescue/
[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...
[3] https://www.cheknews.ca/researchers-r...

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