FROM: Sturgess, Frances Coulter
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SUBJECT: Action Alert: Monterey Bay Aquarium/bott
DATE: 09-28-98 11:21 EST
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Any Monterey County WIC or Task force folks out there? Andrea Van Outrye?
(sorry about spelling)
I visited the MOnterey Bay Aquarium Saturday, you know, the Big Beautiful
one
funded by the Packards of HewlettPackard computers? They have a display
called Flippers, Flukes and Fun, for the younger set, dealiing with marine
mammals. Several interactive displays, coloring stations etc.
The first thing that hits your eyes coming into it is this HUGE BABY BOTTLE
representing how much milk an infant whale drinks, and there are more baby
bottles showing how many human infant bottles this matches. And a graphic
inside the interactive showing a human infant happily lifting a bottle to
feed
(it is at least sitting up) surrounded by 5 other bottles, saying, a baby
drinks 6 bottles of milk a day.
I wrote a quick pencil note re: my concerns (promoting bottle feeding,
unconsciously or not) on their suggestion form at the entrance while waiting
to renew our membership, but of course had no figures at hand. At least it
was a heads up i hope, to the issue.
Ms Packard (daughter) is the director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Institute,
(Forgot her first name) Website is www.mbayaq.org.
Will pass on more info as I find it--but please help inform them about what
they could do better.
Such an opportunity lost to educate the public about species differences in
milks and why it is so important that infant mammals get milk, particularly
their own. At least Could have used different household measures, graphic of
whale nursing, human nursing (someone wrote to lactnet once that Dr.
Jelliffe
described whales ejecting milk into the sea and the infant having to swim
and
drink to keep up??? is that so?)
Apparently this is not a new display, but somehow I missed it last year..has
anyone written on it before? Can we get them to change it?
And of course they have done mammal rescue, involving feeding otters a
"formula/milkshake" of clams and cream, with surviving results, so maybe
they
don't quite "get it" either re: species milk and breastfeeding, though they
do
have the idea about fat.
That would be interesting--so many cubes of butter per day in whale milk...
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