. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Knowing When to Help The first rule of CPR is to make sure that the person you're giving it to needs it. Someone who appears unconscious is not necessarily in cardiac distress. It is also true that a lone fledgling bird hop- ping around your yard does not an orphan make. Good intentions often go awry when humans try to "help" wildlife that are only doing what comes naturally. The aquarist at the Aquarium in Manteo tells of a well-meaning man who spied a harbor seal napping on one of the stat
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Knowing When to Help The first rule of CPR is to make sure that the person you're giving it to needs it. Someone who appears unconscious is not necessarily in cardiac distress. It is also true that a lone fledgling bird hop- ping around your yard does not an orphan make. Good intentions often go awry when humans try to "help" wildlife that are only doing what comes naturally. The aquarist at the Aquarium in Manteo tells of a well-meaning man who spied a harbor seal napping on one of the state's northern beaches. "He threw this seal in the toolbox in back of his truck and brought it here, thinking he was doing the animal a fa- vor," says Olivia Burrus. "The only thing that was wrong with the seal is it had hauled out to rest a couple of days. We released him, and fortunately he was ; A woman recently called 911 when she spotted a whale about 100 feet off the beach that she thought "couldn't breathe and was in distress," Burrus recalls. "But the whale was just up on the (sand)bar, rolling around, playing and having a good time, and she called ; And though people are becoming more educated about respecting turtle nesting sites, it didn't stop a vacation- ing couple recently from trans- porting four "orphaned" sea turtles from a North Carolina beach to their Ohio bathtub, Burrus says. "People's intentions are good, but they just don't know," says Burrus. We also don't know how to keep our hands off baby birds. Ninety percent of the nestlings being raised by volun- teers at the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter in Morehead City shouldn't be there. "There's a big misconception that the public in general has about wild ani- mals, and it's that they can't raise their babies or they abandon their own babies," says shelter staffer Cheryl Baptist. Well-. An orphaned opossum at Please note that t
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