- Nemo - A patient at the Dolphin & Whale Hospital
Species: Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps)
Age Class: Juvenile
Gender: Male
Date Stranded: 7 May 2001
Location of Stranding: Vero Beach, Florida
Date of Arrival at DWH: 12 May 2001
Number of Days of Care: 101
Final Disposition: Died 16 August 2001
Nemo on arrival at the Dolphin and Whale Hospital 5/12
Nemo stranded at Vero Beach and was immediately taken to
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
where he was placed in a medical pool. Diagnostics indicated a very heavy gastric parasite load but the animal appeared relatively healthy otherwise. It was decided to transfer this animal to Mote's Dolphin and Whale Hospital where another Kogia calf was being rehabilitated (Ami). Nemo arrived this afternoon (See
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