Explore North Coast Lecture Series
Explore North Coast invites the public to their free lecture featuring Tamar Danufsky, Curator of the Humboldt State University Wildlife Museum. Tamar is also the Marine Wildlife Care Center Coordinator for HSU. The lecture is on Monday, March 9th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, 921, Waterfront Drive, Eureka. When you go to a natural history museum, the majority of the specimens in the museum are not on display. The HSU Wildlife Department has 15,000 specimens in its collection of birds and mammals, but only 1,000 of those are on display in the building. Come and learn about the other 14,000. What is in the collection? How are these specimens prepared? How can these dead animals help save live animals? And why oh why do they have so many? The Wildlife Department also manages an oiled wildlife rehabilitation facility as part of California's Oiled Wildlife Care Network, a world leader in the rehabilitation of oiled wildlife. This lecture will present information about the Network and past oil spills on the north coast. Questions she will discuss include: Should we even rehabilitate oiled wildlife? What is the rehabilitation process and why don't we wash animals as soon as we pluck them off the beach? What happens to the rehabilitated and released animals, do they even survive? Come and learn how you can get involved in the event of a local spill. For more information on these wildlife programs, go to www.humboldt.edu/wildmuseum and www.humboldt.edu/mwcc.
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