Marine Mammal Trainers

Jenny Montague, Marine Mammal Trainer at New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts, and her colleagues share tales of daily life working with harbor seals and fur seals.

Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts

Showing posts with label teeth. Show all posts

4/4/12

Say Ahhh! Fur Seal Check-Up

We've focused a lot on the active side of the animals, but if they weren't feeling well they certainly wouldn't be as active. So...

1/28/09

#91: Toothbrushing 103: The Sonicare Brush

While Chacoda was regularly having his teeth brushed with the rotary toothbrush (and really great at it too), we noticed that there was som...

1/26/09

#89: Toothbrushing 102: The Rotary Toothbrush

The harbor seals have been comfortable getting their teeth brushed with a manual toothbrush for some time, so now we're introducing a r...

1/12/09

#83: Tooth Brushing 101

In a previous post , I showed you a visit from our veterinary dentist Dr. Laura LeVan. What do you think we do with the seals between visits...

6/3/08

#13: Seal Teeth

Let's see those pearly whites...or yellows, or blacks! Teeth. That is the word of the day. Here you can see three sets of teeth; Atlanti...

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