Animal Updates | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Sharks | Video | Volunteering
Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Aquarium’s Critters Seen from a Different Angle | Hugh 
When you take a look at the Aquarium’s critters from a slightly different view point you may see things you didn’t notice before. Seen from ground level a seal happily “skips” along with her trainer. Seen from his point-of-view, a sea lion makes an exciting high-speed head-on pass with one of his exhibit mates. These are just two unique views of the critters at the Aquarium of the Pacific that you’ll see in this week’s blog in the video “The Aquarium’s Critters from a Different Angle”!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Video | Whale Watching
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Racing Blue Whales and Orcas! | Kera
All within one week!
All I can say about the last two weeks of whale watching is “WOW!” We’ve seen everything from vocal blue whales to transient orcas harassing a sea lion. I’m not sure it can get much better than this! Read on to find out details of our latest sightings.
Arts
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Arts at the Aquarium | Claire
The Aquarium of the Pacific is home to fish, sharks, marine mammals, lorikeets, and shorebirds, but we also feature paintings, film, photography, music, dance, and sculpture. How do art and science complement each other in the communication of ideas?
Animal Updates | Mammals | Volunteering
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Who’s Who? | Hugh
Recognizing the Aquarium's Pinnipeds
To a wet-side volunteer like myself that spends a lot of time around them, the seals and sea lions of the Aquarium of the Pacific are as individual and recognizable as any of my close friends and relatives. However I’ve been reminded by a dry-side staffer that perhaps to guests and non marine mammal staff the pinnipeds may not be quite as recognizable to them. So this week’s blog is about how to tell our pinnipeds apart and, as a bit of an insight to them, how I tell them apart by their looks and personality.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Whale Watching
Thursday, September 08, 2011
A Repeat of Last Year? | Kera
I sure hope so!
In August and September of 2010, we had some of the best days of blue whale watching I’ve ever seen! Late last August the whale sightings started to increase quite a bit. At first it was 12 whales, then 15, and eventually we got up to over 20 whales! Although we’re a few weeks later into the season from last year, it looks like we’re up for a repeat of this massive gathering of whales!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Video | Volunteering
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Sea Lion-Cam with Milo…and Harpo | Hugh
Milo the sea lion received a new toy last weekend. His old low resolution video camera on his “sea lion-cam” rig has now been replaced with a new high definition video camera. Our aquatic photographer took it out for a test dive last Saturday. This week’s blog features the video shot by Milo while he and I tried out the camera for the first time.
