The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been devastating and heart breaking, for the most part. Thousands of people are left without homes, family, food or shelter, and those are the more fortunate ones. The hurricane captured the lives of many individuals. Although all of this has been brought to all of our attention, an area which is not so readily covered is the impact on nature and animal life in the south. An article published on www.cnn.com talked about eight trained dolphins were moved from their residence to at pool at the Marine Life Oceanarium in Mississippi, which had withstood the hurricane of 1969. According to the associate press, when the hurricane hit the dolphins were "pulled out into the Gulf of Mexico." Animal rescue experts were very worried for the dolphins, especially for two of them who had been born at the aquarium and therefore had never been out in the "real world." Fortunately, all dolphins were rescued and are now being taken care of. The article stated that all of the dolphins look like they will be okay, even with cuts and some being 100 pounds underweight. I felt that this article is important because of the lack of articles that have been touching upon the animal life that was also destroyed when the hurricane hit. It is so nice to have heart-warming articles in a time of such devastation. I also find it interesting how quickly these animal rescuers got to the scene to find the stranded dolphins, where as it took days to help fellow Americans who were stranded on their rooftops. The animal experts were doing their job, and doing it well. One can not help but ask... Why was the government not immediately on scene helping out nearly destroyed humans?

The above mentioned article can be found at: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/09/21/katrina.dolphin.rescue.ap/index.html