Name: 湖上的海洋 | 海獺 Kiana | 芝加哥 ABC7 頻道 (An Ocean On The Lake | Kiana the Sea Otter | ABC7 Chicago)
Uploaded: 2025-01-20T16:35:52.000Z
Duration: 6 min 11 s

Right now we have a sea otter who's undergoing chemotherapy.

現在，我們有一隻正在接受化療的海獺。

She's got a lymphoid cancer, a lymphoma, and a chemotherapy treatment of a geriatric sea otter.

她得了淋巴癌、淋巴瘤，還要接受老年海獺的化療。

進階被動語態

Chemotherapy drugs, many of them, have to be given into a vein, into a main vein, and they're given regularly.

許多化療藥物都必須通過靜脈輸入，輸入主靜脈，而且要定期注射。

So in human medicine and even in companion animal medicine, oncologists are implanting little reservoirs under the skin which provide you access so that you don't have to put a catheter in every time, take it out.

是以，在人類醫學甚至是伴侶動物醫學中，腫瘤學家都會在皮下植入小儲藏器，為你提供通道，這樣你就不必每次都插上導管，取出導管。

We actually tried that with our otter, and as far as we know, that's the first time that was tried in an otter.

據我們所知，這是第一次在水獺身上進行這種嘗試。

My name is Christy Sterling, and I am the supervisor of penguins and sea otters here in the Shedd Aquarium.

我叫克里斯蒂-斯特林，是謝德水族館企鵝和海獺的主管。

I don't know who doesn't think a sea otter is adorable, but I don't know if people know there's a lot more to them.

我不知道誰不覺得海獺很可愛，但我不知道人們是否知道海獺還有很多其他的特點。

Sea otters are what you would call a keystone species.

Basically that means that in the food chain there's those sea otters, they eat the sea urchins, sea urchins eat the kelp forest.

這基本上意味著，在食物鏈中，海獺吃海膽，海膽吃海藻林。

So if sea otters were not in that equation, those sea urchins would decimate the kelp forest.

是以，如果沒有海獺，這些海膽就會使海藻森林瀕臨滅絕。

So they're super important for their ecosystem.

是以，它們對生態系統來說超級重要。

Sea otters are the only marine mammal that don't have blubber to keep them nice and insulated.

海獺是唯一沒有鯨脂隔熱的海洋哺乳動物。

Instead, they really rely heavily on their very, very dense fur.

相反，它們非常依賴於非常非常濃密的皮毛。

They have 750,000 to a million hairs per square inch, so it's very, very dense.

它們每平方英寸有 75 萬到一百萬根毛，所以非常非常密集。

If you ever see an otter and it looks like they're itching or scratching themselves, they're probably working on separating those hairs.

如果你看到水獺好像在瘙癢或抓撓自己，它們可能正在努力把這些毛髮分開。

Kiana was an orphaned otter pup that was orphaned in Alaska.

Kiana 是阿拉斯加的一隻水獺孤兒。

Just a year after I began volunteering, I got a call that they got an otter pup, and would I want a position taking care of an orphaned otter pup?

就在我開始做志願者的一年後，我接到一個電話，說他們找到了一隻水獺幼崽。

That was in 2005, so that was, wow, 16 years ago.

那是 2005 年的事了，哇，16 年了。

Sometimes I was here throughout the night taking care of an otter pup.

有時，我整晚都在這裡照顧一隻水獺幼崽。

I knew her ever since I could pretty much hold her and feed her a bottle of formula made for pups, otter pups.

我認識她的時候，我幾乎可以抱著她，給她喂一瓶為幼崽（水獺幼崽）準備的奶粉。

I think we've got a really good mutual trust.

我認為我們之間的相互信任非常好。

I think I know her very well and I think she knows me very well.

我想我很瞭解她，我想她也很瞭解我。

It's been also great to see when any time new pups come in, she's usually one of the first ones that they meet because she's got a really nice, calm, docile demeanor.

每次有新的幼犬進來時，它通常都是它們最先見到的幼犬之一，因為它的舉止非常優雅、平靜、溫順。

So I like watching her interactions with all the other youngsters that come through.

是以，我喜歡看她與其他年輕人的互動。

One of her favorite things to do is probably give her a couple buckets of ice and she will be happy.

她最喜歡做的事情之一可能就是給她幾桶冰，她就會很高興。

She'll park it and munch on the ice and groom.

她會把車停好，然後啃冰，做新郎。

She's pretty identifiable by her coloration.

Compared to the others, she likes to relax.

Sometimes she likes to go on deck and take a little nap, whereas our youngsters, they're young and they're super active.

有時，她喜歡到甲板上小睡一會兒，而我們的小傢伙們，他們還小，非常活潑好動。

They might want to be more active, doing the diving and things, but she likes to take her time.

他們可能想更活躍一些，去潛水什麼的，但她喜歡慢慢來。

Kiana, it was discovered that she had a lymphoma, which is a type of cancer.

Kiana 被發現患有淋巴瘤，這是一種癌症。

So last year, Kiana's caretakers noticed a lump and they alerted the veterinary staff.

去年，Kiana 的看護人員發現了一個腫塊，於是他們通知了獸醫人員。

Shortly after, Kiana was diagnosed with lymphoma, which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.

不久後，Kiana 被診斷出患有淋巴瘤，這是一種淋巴結癌症。

So when she just felt like a slight little bump that hadn't been there before, we looked into it and that's what it soon was found out to be.

是以，當她只覺得有一個輕微的小凸起以前沒有出現過時，我們就進行了檢查，結果很快就發現了這一點。

There are no formal studies in sea otters with lymphoma, so we worked closely with the oncologist at the Veterinary Specialty Center in Buffalo Grove to design a treatment plan that was right for her.

目前還沒有關於海獺淋巴瘤的正式研究，是以我們與布法羅格羅夫獸醫專科中心的腫瘤學家密切合作，為它設計了一套合適的治療方案。

And that meant as few treatments as possible to decrease the number of treatments she received and also decrease the time that she spent away from the other otters here at S.H.E.D.

這意味著治療次數越少越好，以減少它接受治療的次數，同時也減少它離開 S.H.E.D 其他水獺的時間。

The other really unique thing about her treatment is that we put a port underneath her skin in her leg that allowed us constant access to her veins.

她的治療還有一個非常獨特的地方，那就是我們在她的腿部皮下放置了一個端口，這樣我們就可以隨時進入她的靜脈。

So this gave us the opportunity to administer chemotherapy in a place that was a little bit friendlier to her heart.

這讓我們有機會在一個對她心臟更友好的地方進行化療。

One great example of the amazing relationship between Kiana and her caretakers is that Kiana actually participates in her own medical care.

Kiana 和她的看護人之間的奇妙關係有一個很好的例子，那就是 Kiana 實際上參與了自己的醫療護理。

So for each time that she needs a procedure, she receives an injection of an anesthetic and that helps her go to sleep.

是以，每次需要進行手術時，她都要注射麻醉劑，這有助於她入睡。

In order to do that, she actually voluntarily comes on deck for us and lets us give her that injection.

為了做到這一點，她實際上是自願到甲板上讓我們給她打針的。

The goal for Kiana's therapy is to help her live a good quality of life for as long as possible.

為 Kiana 治療的目標是幫助她儘可能長時間地保持良好的生活品質。

Therefore, we probably know that this is not going to be a cure for her.

是以，我們大概知道這並不能治癒她。

So her chemotherapy treatments are not necessarily as severe and she doesn't have a lot of the negative effects that you might see in other patients.

是以，她的化療並不一定那麼嚴重，也不會像其他病人那樣產生很多負面影響。

Kiana has completed her current course of chemotherapy.

Kiana 已經完成了目前的化療療程。

We recently took her back to BSC in Buffalo Grove in order to perform more diagnostics.

我們最近帶她回到布法羅格羅夫的 BSC，以便進行更多診斷。

And we're working closely not just with the specialists there, but with her care team to decide what is the best treatment for her moving forward.

我們不僅要與那裡的專家密切合作，還要與她的護理團隊密切合作，以決定她今後的最佳治療方案。

Dogs that receive treatment for lymphoma tend to live around a year of age.

接受淋巴瘤治療的狗狗通常能活到一歲左右。

And she is coming upon 10 months after her diagnosis.

而她在確診 10 個月後就要出院了。

We just kind of hope on a day-to-day basis that she has the highest quality of life possible.

我們每天都希望她能過上最優質的生活。

Everybody loves her so much, whether it's videos that we've shown about her on social media or how she curls up into a pile of ice.

大家都非常喜歡她，無論是我們在社交媒體上展示的關於她的視頻，還是她蜷縮在冰堆裡的樣子，都讓人愛不釋手。

People have seen her do it on exhibit as well.

人們在展覽上也看到過她這樣做。

So she is so beloved here and our team cares so much about her and we just want to make her as comfortable as possible.

是以，她在這裡備受寵愛，我們的團隊也非常關心她，我們只想讓她儘可能地舒適。

Kiana is a really great ambassador for her species.

琪亞娜是一個非常出色的物種大使。

I don't know if people are aware that sea otters are endangered.

我不知道人們是否知道海獺已經瀕臨滅絕。

So they still need to recuperate and thrive again.

是以，它們仍然需要休養生息，重新茁壯成長。

So it's really important to get people on board to care about sea otters.

是以，讓人們關注海獺真的很重要。

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