The Marine Mammal Center
The ocean – California just wouldn't be the same without this watery wonderland, or the millions of creatures who call it's blue abyss home. Unfortunately, the Pacific Ocean is constantly being threatened by pollution and various other manmade factors. Luckily, budget San Francisco car rental travelers can do something to change this tide of destruction and help save the animals that call the California coast home. How? By visiting the Marine Mammal Center of course! The Marine Mammal Center is dedicated to expand public knowledge of marina animals, both their health and habitat, as well as inspiring global conservation and protection efforts. With numerous locations across California, this organization focuses most of its efforts on the rescue an rehabilitation of area seals.
About the Marine Mammal Center
The Marine Mammal Center recently opened a brand new facility in the Marin Headlands, home to the organization's original head office. This four-year, $32 million project has helped to greatly improve the center's ability to care and study for local marine mammals, as well as provide budget San Francisco car rental travelers with an interactive learning facility. This new building is one of the largest marine mammal hospitals in the world to combine animal rehabilitation efforts with an onsite research laboratory. At any given time, budget San Francisco car rental travelers could discover more than 200 animals at the facility, with the Center treating more than 600 individual creatures every year.
A mission of hope
The Marine Mammal Center focuses on a four part mission to:
RESCUE: The Marine Mammal Center employes a specially-trained group of experts authorized by the National Marine Fisheries Service to rescue marine mammals along 600 miles of Central and Northern California coast.
REHABILITATE and RELEASE: All of the mammals that budgets San Francisco car rental travelers see at the Marine Mammal Center are eventually released back into the wild.
RESEARCH: Each animal that is treated at the Marine Mammal Center provides researchers with invaluable source of information on both marine mammal health and ocean health.
TEACH: The educational programs provided by the Marine Mammal Center offer budget San Francisco car rental travelers the opportunity to better understand our marine environment and the survival of ocean-dependent life.
Take a self guided tour of the Marine Mammal Center
Budget San Francisco car rental travelers are invited to tour the Marine Mammal Center as part of a self guided tour. Exhibits throughout the center will inform you about the staff's work, as well as provide information on rescue efforts. If you have a question during your tour, feel free to ask a docent for help – they are stationed at the information desk and the upper viewing area. Depending on patient care activities, budget San Francisco car rental travelers may have the opportunity to watch animal car crews preparing for feedings, cleaning pens, or exercising the animals currently living at the center. Self guided tours of the Marine Mammal Center usually last about an hour. Private self guided tours can be reserved in advanced.
Learn from a docent
Docent led tours of the Marine Mammal Center are offered Fridays and Mondays at 1pm and 3pm, and on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm. These tours travel throughout the center's exhibits and viewing areas and include insights into the Center's work. Budget San Francisco car rental travelers can participate in a docent led for just $7. Seniors and students are admitted for just $5.
Admission to the Marine Mammal Center is free. Budget San Francisco car rental travelers will find the center at 2000 Bunker Road in Fort Cronkhite, California. The Center is open daily from 10am to 5pm. For more information and directions to the facility, visit the official website at www.marinemammalcenter.org.
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