11.   Another project will seek to establish population numbers and distribution of the marine mammals.

12.   Meanwhile, large numbers of seabirds and marine mammals continue to die as a result of the massive oil spills in the Gulf.

13.   It had previously been thought that pollution posed the greatest threat to inshore marine mammals.

14.   Industrial fishing concentrates on smaller species such as sandeels, which are an important food for larger fish, seabirds and marine mammals.

15.   The Anisakidae are ascaridoids whose adults are parasitic in a wide rage of animals, including marine mammals and birds.

16.   Allen earned his degree at the University of Missouri, where he met his wife, Rae Stone, a marine mammal veterinarian who specializes in treating dolphins.

17.   An environmental organization plans to build the first facility in the world dedicated solely to rehabilitating whales and other marine mammals that get stranded on New England shores.

18.   And that knowledge, he added, is giving scientists new ways to take better care of marine mammals.

19.   Answers to such questions are revealing a hidden world of marine mammals and helping people take better care of captive animals.

20.   Antibiotics, a marine mammal formula called Multi-milk and water, are shot through the tube with large plastic syringes.