Anesthetizing Right Whales

Explore Research at the University of Florida: Mike Walsh, a clinical associate professor of veterinary medicine, explains that in the wild, right whales can pick up hundreds of feet of fishing line, which fills their mouths, causing them to starve to death over time. Right whales avoid human contact, so removing the line is difficult. UF applied its methods of anesthetizing dolphins to the whales, and has been successful in removing line from the whales' mouths.

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