you’re walking around with a sharp
needle on the end of a stick and you’re
walking around rocks and high schools
and some terrain that could be tricky
and then you’re approaching 400 plus
pound animals and endangered species and
you’re gonna try to you know jab it with
a syringe the NOAA Hawaiian muscle
research program is the only group that
is proactively going out and activating
a large subset of a marine mammal
populations anywhere in the world right
now so it really is a very unique
program that we’re excited to be
starting out one step at a time there
are between 1200 and 1300 Hawaiian monk
seals left they live exclusively in
Hawaiian waters and so they range from
the big island at the southernmost end
of the archipelago all the way out to
Kure atoll at the end of the
northwestern Hawaiian Islands entrance
and I discovered that having a hand
signal like this in states that the
safety is off it’s a good reminder
morbillivirus is what we’re hoping to
protect these seals against and people
may be more familiar with a few specific
more bili viruses such as canine
distemper so that is something that dogs
are vaccinated against routinely measles
is another type of more Bailey virus and
that’s the morbillivirus that affects
humans so if you know much about measles
you know that once it starts to spread
it spreads really quickly this virus has
killed seals in other parts of the world
on the order of tens of thousands of
animals if you think about that relative
to the number of monk seals that are in
existence we really don’t think that the
population could sustain an outbreak of
a morbillivirus
when we’re working with seals where
we’re trying not to disturb them unless
it is for a specific purpose and that’s
one of the reasons that for the
vaccination project we’re really happy
that we’ve been able to incorporate
using this tool it’s essentially a
spring-loaded syringe on a pole where it
gives people a safe distance away from
the seal in case the seal does rear back
and respond a lot of the seals so far
haven’t responded very dramatically they
may lift their head turn their upper
body and vocalize and then lay back down
and now they sleep so regrouping I can’t
believe how totally non impressed they
are with our needles they generally just
go right back to sleep and back to the
business as usual for so long with the
boy and monk so we’ve been spending so
much trying trying to fix the things
that are going wrong and we need to get
ahead of this and to try to do something
preventative instead of just following
behind
personal pups are taani but they are
ferocious in their own right
needle on the end of a stick and you’re
walking around rocks and high schools
and some terrain that could be tricky
and then you’re approaching 400 plus
pound animals and endangered species and
you’re gonna try to you know jab it with
a syringe the NOAA Hawaiian muscle
research program is the only group that
is proactively going out and activating
a large subset of a marine mammal
populations anywhere in the world right
now so it really is a very unique
program that we’re excited to be
starting out one step at a time there
are between 1200 and 1300 Hawaiian monk
seals left they live exclusively in
Hawaiian waters and so they range from
the big island at the southernmost end
of the archipelago all the way out to
Kure atoll at the end of the
northwestern Hawaiian Islands entrance
and I discovered that having a hand
signal like this in states that the
safety is off it’s a good reminder
morbillivirus is what we’re hoping to
protect these seals against and people
may be more familiar with a few specific
more bili viruses such as canine
distemper so that is something that dogs
are vaccinated against routinely measles
is another type of more Bailey virus and
that’s the morbillivirus that affects
humans so if you know much about measles
you know that once it starts to spread
it spreads really quickly this virus has
killed seals in other parts of the world
on the order of tens of thousands of
animals if you think about that relative
to the number of monk seals that are in
existence we really don’t think that the
population could sustain an outbreak of
a morbillivirus
when we’re working with seals where
we’re trying not to disturb them unless
it is for a specific purpose and that’s
one of the reasons that for the
vaccination project we’re really happy
that we’ve been able to incorporate
using this tool it’s essentially a
spring-loaded syringe on a pole where it
gives people a safe distance away from
the seal in case the seal does rear back
and respond a lot of the seals so far
haven’t responded very dramatically they
may lift their head turn their upper
body and vocalize and then lay back down
and now they sleep so regrouping I can’t
believe how totally non impressed they
are with our needles they generally just
go right back to sleep and back to the
business as usual for so long with the
boy and monk so we’ve been spending so
much trying trying to fix the things
that are going wrong and we need to get
ahead of this and to try to do something
preventative instead of just following
behind
personal pups are taani but they are
ferocious in their own right
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