Marine mammals

We can confidently state that nearly everyone who has worked with or observed animals for a significant amount of time has witnessed some form of aggressive behavior.

Anna P. Svensson and Paola Cuevas, Ski Dubai

Anna’s career started in 2006 with an internship at a rescue and rehabilitation center for marine animals in New Zealand. The internship progressed to a full time position continuing working with dolphins, sea lions, penguins and other marine birds.

Alicia Borque Espinosa, Biologist and pre-doctoral researcher at the University of Valencia and the Oceanogràfic Foundation. His research work focuses on the study of the physiology of the respiratory system in different species of marine mammals, with the aim of improving conservation efforts to help protect these animals in their natural environment.

We had the opportunity to interview Vicki Putman-Weber, senior killer whale trainer at SeaWorld.

She was born in Albany (USA), and she studied biology at Linn–Benton Community College and Zoology at Oregon State University. She began her career in 2000 as an intern at Oregon Coast Aquarium working with seals and sea lions. Later she worked at Ocean World, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and finally at SeaWorld San Diego, in California.

Some of you already know the story of Xana, the sea lion with regurgitation problems as one of the WeZooit members, Enzo Rodriguez, carried out this training and presented it at the IMATA 2018 conference in Portugal.