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.

8/19/09

#142: Fur Seal Over Ice on The Boston Globe's front page

If you've seen the front page of The Boston Globe today, you've seen Ursula , a Northern fur seal , relaxing on 300 pounds of ice. ...

8/17/09

#141: Seal of the week: Reggae

It has been a while since our seal of the week blog. The arrival of our fur seals and the opening of the New Balance Foundation Marine Mamma...

8/4/09

#140: Harbor Seal HIGH FIVE!

This was my first behavior I trained with Reggae from start to finish. I actually trained it twice; the first time I did it, I didn't n...

7/31/09

#139: The Art of Jug Handling

This is a really cool video of Isaac, our 9-year-old male Northern fur seal, jug handling. Check out Patty's previous post here , for ...

7/30/09

#138: Ursula the Sliding Fur Seal

Ursula the Northern fur seal likes to slide on the ramp down to the holding room pool! She will slide during, after and in between training...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.