Strollerderby

I wonder why they decided to euthanize the whale...Why do they start playing god? Can they predict whats going to happen tomorrow? Instead of solving the problem they decided to end it by killing the poor creature...If you cant solve it then let it be...Why cant these idiots come to realize that if that is what would eventually end up happening through the natural course of events then they should let it...

It just disgusts me how nobody thinks that it is important to value life...It wasn't dying of disease or terminal illness...the problem was that it couldn't find food... If you guys cant provide that then forget it...Let the animal do what it could...

I am genuinely shocked by what Mr. John Dengate has said and hope that he could explain in detail why they abandoned any other means of rescue. I would also like to

say that Mr. Dengate is wrong in saying that a baby whale

has never been raised in captivity and man-fed. In fact a similar case happened in the US waters in 1997 in which a

baby whale called J.J. was rescued by The SeaWorld

Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Team and was raised in captivity and was fed with a man-made baby whale milk before she was 14 months old. Please refer to the article

I have filed.(Please refer to the article I have attached

underneath)

If there is still hope for Colin and if Mr.Dengate is interested in the baby whale formula , he could consult

The Sea World Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Team,The Sea World Inc.

12 ©2004 Sea World, Inc.

SeaWorld Teacher’s Guide

Baby Whale Formula

OBJECTIVES

Students gain practice measuring and

making calculations.

BACKGROUND

On January 11, 1997, an orphaned gray

whale calf stranded on a beach near

Los Angeles, California. The SeaWorld

Animal Rescue and Rehabilitation Team

began preparations to treat the newborn

gray whale, who came to be known as J.J.

Park veterinarians immediately administered

fluids, glucose, and antibiotics.

A whale milk substitute was developed

by park marine mammal experts. At

first, J.J. was fed every three hours,

around the clock. While one group of

animal care specialists created the formula

critical for the calf’s nutritional

needs, another group donned wet suits

and climbed into the pool with the whale.

At first, J.J. was fed about

6 liters of formula every three

hours. Over time, her food

intake increased. Before she

was weaned, J.J.’s daily food

intake consisted of six

20-liter feedings.

About 14 months after her

arrival, a healthy J.J.—by then

8,700 kilograms and 9.4 meters

long—was released into the

Pacific Ocean off San Diego.

In this activity, students

measure ingredients to create a

mock whale formula. Substitute

bananas for the herring, dry

milk for the Zoologic® powder,

chocolate drink powder for

the dicalcium phosphate, and

cinnamon for the lecithin.

MATERIALS

�� bananas

�� nonfat dry milk

�� milk or heavy whipping cream

�� sugar

�� table salt

�� cinnamon

�� chocolate drink powder

�� blender

�� small cups (one for each student)

�� overhead transparency of “J.J.’s

Formula” on page 13 (enlarge 200%)

�� overhead marking pen or grease

pencil

�� scales for measuring in grams

�� graduated cylinder for measuring in

milliliters

SeaWorld animal care specialists poured formula into a

funnel attached to a tube that went into J.J.’s mouth.

©2004 Sea World, Inc. 13

Splash of Math 4–8

1. Gather the materials for each

cooperative learning group.

2. Discuss J.J.’s rescue and rehabilitation

at SeaWorld with your students.

3. Display the overhead transparency of

J.J.’s formula. Tell students that they

will make a batch of J.J.’s formula.

4. Inform students that they will be

making a few substitutions in the

ingredients list. For each of the

following substitutions, mark the

corresponding change on your

overhead transparency.

• bananas (peels removed) instead

of herring (heads removed)

• nonfat dry milk instead of

Zoologic® powder

• milk instead of heavy whipping

cream (substitution optional)

• table sugar instead of glucose

• cinnamon instead of lecithin

• chocolate drink powder instead of

dicalcium phosphate

5. Your formula will be for humans, so

you will omit the taurine. Taurine is

an amino acid in whale milk that

seems to be absent in the milk of

other species. NaCl is table salt.

6. Assist students as they weigh and

measure ingredients and supervise

the preparation of the formula in a

blender. Students sample the formula

they make.

7. Within a week of J.J.’s arrival she was

drinking seven 7.6-liter feedings of

the formula daily. Have students

calculate how many liters per day J.J.

was ingesting at this point. J.J.’s formula

contained 1.08 kilocalories per

milliliter. How many kilocalories

were in one liter of J.J.’s formula?

How many kilocalories per day was

J.J. ingesting when she first arrived?

8. Before J.J. was weaned onto solid

food she was drinking six 20-liter

feedings of formula daily. Have

students calculate how many liters

per day she was drinking at this

point. How many kilocalories was

she ingesting?

ACTION

ANSWERS

6. 7 x 7.6 liters = 53.2 liters per day

1.08 kilocalories per ml

= 1,080 kilocalories per liter

1,080 kilocalories per liter x 53.2 liters

= 57,456 kilocalories per day

7. 6 x 20 = 120 liters per day

1,080 kilocalories/liter x 120 liters

= 129,600 kilocalories per day

J.J.’s Formula

(amounts listed per liter of formula)

230 g ground herring

(heads removed)

70 g Zoologic® Milk Matrix

Powder (artificial milk

replacer powder)

50 ml heavy whipping cream

7.5 g glucose

4.5 g NaCl

3.5 g lecithin

125 mg taurine

18.75 g dicalcium phosphate

(Zoologic® is a product of Pet-Ag, Inc., 201 Keyes

Ave., Hampshire, IL, 60140)