Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters

70 / Chapter 3 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals set up additional emergency cleaning stations in the area, but t ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 71 nutrition and dehydration. They can also be poisoned by eating oil- contaminated vegetation or pr ...

72 / Chapter 3 tough skin on one’s heel. However, when solvent-based products were used for cleaning contaminated birds, mortali ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 73 Berkner questioned the treatment of the birds at the time, which involved measures such as giving ...

74 / Chapter 3 that has been captured and stabilized within a few hours of being contaminated has a greater chance of survival, ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 75 age. Washed birds are placed in warm air dryers, then in warm water, followed by cool water. Resc ...

76 / Chapter 3 is out of my range. This was the largest spill in U.S. history.^44 The exact reasons for the grounding remain unc ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 77 used in the clean-up of the shoreline killed by weight as many ani- mals as did the initial oilin ...

78 / Chapter 3 as, “U.S. Bureaucracy Halts the Rescuers of Sea Otters,” and “Rescu- ing Animals Diffi cult: Scores of Otters Lik ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 79 The birds had been fi tted with radio transmitters during reha- bilitation. Two years later, res ...

80 / Chapter 3 Questions about whether to rehabilitate, however, skirt the issue of reducing vulnerability. One suggestion for d ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 81 “fl ags of necessity” or, less neutrally, “fl ags of convenience,” vessel owners can legally circ ...

82 / Chapter 3 journalist framed them aptly: “Whom,” he asks, “does a Galician fi sherman call about compensation for his threat ...

Birds and Marine Wildlife / 83 some oil and tanker companies plan to continue to use single-hulled tankers until the 2015 phase- ...

4 Animals in Research Facilities Prayer of the Mouse I am so little and grey, dear God, how can You keep me in mind? Always spie ...

Animals in Research Facilities / 85 nological failure routinely results in animal deaths in numbers far exceeding this threshold ...

86 / Chapter 4 to put these deaths into perspective. Estimates vary widely, put- ting the numbers between seventeen and eighty m ...

Animals in Research Facilities / 87 The rainfall overwhelmed the city’s fl ood-control systems. The most severe damage occurred ...

88 / Chapter 4 the ramps leading to loading docks below ground level. It fl owed into subterranean parking garages. It knocked d ...

Animals in Research Facilities / 89 A.M., twenty-two feet of water submerged the basement and ground level. When the recovery op ...