Animal Updates | Birds | Penguins | Enrichment
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Penguin Party! | Dominique 
We threw the penguins a party! While it’s breeding season for the penguins, not all of them are stuck at home in their nest box. We planned a bright and colorful enrichment session for a few of the penguins, not currently preoccupied with nesting.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Friday, April 11, 2014
Parenting and Predation | Julien
We have had some exciting trips out on the water with the small spring storms and more of the northbound gray whale migration! We have still been seeing many juveniles heading north, which makes sense since many of the whales without calves are the first to pass our coast.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Penguins | Turtles | Volunteering
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Aquarium Snapshots: Spring 2014 | Hugh
Milo the sea lion does a high back flip. Lou the sea turtle glides through the water. Ollie the sea otter enjoys a slide. These are descriptions of some snapshots of the Aquarium of the Pacific’s critters from the past few months.
Animal Updates | Birds | Enrichment
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Musical Magpie | Dominique
The Aquarium’s magpie Ian seems to like making noise and tapping out a beat with his beak. We gave him a toy piano to see if he could turn the beat into music.
Animal Updates | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Penguins | Sharks | Turtles | Volunteering
Thursday, March 27, 2014
You Know You’ve Been an Animal Care Volunteer a Long Time When… | Hugh
You know you’ve been an animal care volunteer at the Aquarium of the Pacific for a long time when you can alley-oop a herring to a sea lion better than Chris Paul can alley-oop a basketball to Blake Griffin and can pitch a clam to the paw of a sea otter more accurately than Clayton Kershaw can pitch a baseball to the glove of a catcher. Check out the rest of the just-for-fun look at a decade-and-a-half-worth of experiences of a longtime Aquarium volunteer.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Thursday, March 20, 2014
False Killer Whales! | Julien
“A what killer whale?” This might be the first question you have after reading the title of this blog. Answer: super cool, super rare toothed whales. Read on to see some more information and pictures!
Animal Updates | Reptiles | Enrichment
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
One Smoothie, with a Cricket Boost! | Dominique
The otters like smoothies. The lorikeets like smoothies. Why not some of our other animals? Enrichment Intern AnnMarie makes a smoothie for our bearded dragon!
Animal Updates | Mammals | Volunteering
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Happy 17th Birthday, Charlie! | Hugh
Charlie is a very special sea otter. He was the first otter in the world to give a voluntary blood sample. He participated in a landmark study on sea otter auditory abilities. And he and longtime female otter companion Brook were there in 1998 when the Aquarium of the Pacific first opened. On March 1, 2014, Charlie celebrated his seventeenth birthday.
Animal Updates | Birds | Enrichment
Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Simply Enriching | Dominique
Not all enrichment devices have to be complicated puzzles or handcrafted toys. Sometimes simple things can bring great satisfaction.
Animal Updates | Mammals | Conservation | Education | Whale Watching
Saturday, March 01, 2014
Humpbacks Here and Humpbacks There! | Julien
While we spend a lot of time on the water in SoCal, we also like to travel to other places to see and learn about whales. Kera Mathes, our boat programs coordinator, and I recently took a long vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii, where I used to live. We spent ten days in Hilo and Kona looking for whales! Read on to find out what is going on in the world of whales, and check out some great shots taken from the islands.
