{"id":15896,"date":"2018-10-24T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=15896"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:28:22","slug":"mlmls-stranding-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2018\/10\/24\/mlmls-stranding-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are the People Who Run Towards the Stinky Beach Carcass?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"IMG_6430\"By Sharon Hsu, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/a><\/h3>\n

My initiation to the MLML Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Stranding Network<\/a> was by fire. Actually, by a 200-pound dead harbor seal that we had to drag up Spanish Bay and load into the backseat of Jenni\u2019s Ford Focus, amongst an onslaught of concerned tourists who had just paid to take a leisurely drive down one of Monterey\u2019s most beautiful roads. Surprisingly, despite all the awkward and concerned staring, only a handful of people approached to ask what we were doing. I assume that, like me, everyone else was too shy to ask what the hell we were doing and will forever wonder about that big blue body bag that was suspiciously getting pulled off the beach by two women in flip-flops.<\/p>\n

As official dead-thing-touchers (yes, we have the permits to do so \u2013 and yes, you have to have a permit to do so), we find that only a few brave individuals will approach to ask questions about what we are doing, and I can only assume that others might be left wondering why two people in a kayak were sampling blubber from that dead humpback whale off Lover\u2019s Point or putting that dead sea lion pup into a plastic bag in front of a class of baby kayakers on Del Monte Beach. So here are the answers to the top six questions we get: <\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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