Marine Mammal Rescue

The Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre is a hospital for sick, injured or orphaned marine mammals. The Rescue Centre rescues abandoned mammals and rehabilitates them for release back into their natural habitat. Donate to the Rescue Centre at www.vanaqua.org/act/direct-action/marine-mammal-rescue

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Rescued Northern sea otter Tazlina jets in from Alaska

Ocean Wise

September 9, 2019

Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Vancouver Aquarium

The Vancouver Aquarium has welcomed an adorable new arrival. Small, furry and still attached to her fleshy umbilical cord, this newborn Northern sea otter caught the attention of some fishermen trawling for...

Getting Down and Dirty

Ocean Wise

April 12, 2019

Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue

Picture this: what does one human baby need to be properly looked after? They need to be fed and have their diapers changed, and they need a safe and clean place to sleep. Now picture a hundred seal pups that n...

Ocean Wise

March 6, 2019

Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue

Last week, the team at our Marine Mammal Rescue Centre treated a young harbour seal who had been shot in the face and seriously injured by birdshot. Under anaesthetic, she was examined by veterinary opht...

Springer’s Success Story

Ocean Wise

February 19, 2019

Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium, Whale Sightings

In 2002, an orphaned killer whale, Springer (A73), brought together scientists, government officials and concerned citizens in the first orca recovery effort of its kind. Seventeen years after Springer’s rescue...

Meet Vet Fellow Megan Strobel

Ocean Wise

October 17, 2018

Marine Mammal Rescue, Vancouver Aquarium

Megan Strobel’s favourite animals show her roots. As a Florida girl, she grew up watching bottlenose dolphins from shore. As an undergraduate student at University of Florida, she worked on another favourite an...

Saving Scarlet

Ocean Wise

August 15, 2018

Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium

The Vancouver Aquarium, as part of a cross-border team of organizations and institutions, is on a mission to save an ailing Southern Resident Killer Whale. On August 9, Vancouver Aquarium’s head veterinarian Dr...

A Mother’s Love

Ocean Wise

May 10, 2018

Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Whale Sightings

Much like humans, mothers play an important role in killer whale culture. Killer whales are highly social, group-living animals whose social structure revolves around females. For some members of the animal kin...

Rescued, Rehabilitated, Released: A Shark’s Story

Ocean Wise

February 16, 2018

Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Research - Vancouver Aquarium Research, Vancouver Aquarium

Last August, the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre received a call about a distressed fish on the beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver. Luckily, the Vancouver Aquarium’s Veterinary and Fishes teams ...