{"id":1212,"date":"2013-12-16T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=519"},"modified":"2020-11-30T14:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T19:00:19","slug":"stranding-team-responds-to-ocean-sunfish-stranding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/2013\/12\/stranding-team-responds-to-ocean-sunfish-stranding\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranding Team Responds to Ocean Sunfish Stranding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_76\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-76   \" alt=\"Mola mola, or Ocean Sunfish\" src=\"\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/news-12-16-mola-mola.png\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Mola mola, or Ocean Sunfish, was stranded in Cedar Island, off Lola Drive, December 14, 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On December 15, Dr. Vicky Thayer received a live stranding report of a &#8220;black dolphin or black whale&#8221; off Lola Drive in Cedar Island. The report was that it was &#8220;alive and dolphin-like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Stranding Team mobilized in two vehicles, prepared for live-stranded cetacean such as Risso\u2019s dolphin or perhaps a pilot whale. However, when the team arrived on the scene they found something unexpected &#8211; the animal was a <em>Mola mola<\/em>, commonly referred to as an Ocean Sunfish.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean Sunfish generally sticks to the open ocean, and this one was quite a distance away from even deep water. Though all options were carefully considered for rescuing the sunfish, it ultimately\u00a0was euthanized at the stranding site.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/news-12-16-mola-team.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77\" alt=\"The Stranding Team euthanized the Sunfish and brought it back to CMAST for future study.\" src=\"\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/news-12-16-mola-team.png\" width=\"388\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Stranding Team euthanized the Sunfish and brought it back to CMAST for future study.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In circumstances such as these, a euthanized animal is taken to CMAST on a stretcher where fluid samples are taken and carefully documented and preserved. Finally, the animal is placed into cold storage for a later necropsy to learn more about what may have led to its death. This may also give students a valuable opportunity to examine an animal first hand in great detail with which they have not previously had hands-on experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 15, Dr. Vicky Thayer received a live stranding report of a &#8220;black dolphin or black whale&#8221; off Lola Drive in Cedar Island. The report was that it was &#8220;alive and dolphin-like.&#8221; The Stranding Team mobilized in two vehicles, prepared for live-stranded cetacean such as Risso\u2019s dolphin or perhaps a pilot whale. However, when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strandings"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4738,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}