They are a challenge. And yes, we have been successful. We even had a little blue ring octopus that are highly venomous. I mean, arm to arm. They’re about that big. But they have beautiful, like iridescent blue rings on their body. They, they have a venom that if they… Read More
I have a pencil drawing that the trainers had commissioned an artist to do of him. And in the frame is the she Aquarium ID of Bucky. He’s got his own employee id. So it was a great story and it was great to have him around and, you know,… Read More
Could be logistically difficult to obtain. It may not be able to survive at these atmospheres. When I say that, there’s two animal groups that I think of. One is a cila cat, which was thought to be extinct until like the late 1920s when it shows up in a… Read More
So there’s a lot of pressure there. I’m not sure that the animal will be able to survive at atmospheric pressure that we experience every day, perhaps, but we don’t know and difficult to obtain as well. The other one would be deep sea fishes. Those that are found at… Read More
He goes, Hey Jim, you know whose dog this is?… Read More
I’m like, oh yeah, it’s the breaker. It’s my dog. I explained why I brought him in. He says, oh, that’ll be fine, that’ll be fine. Just don’t let him up in the public area. So, oh, no, no, no, I, I promise he’s stay in my office. You know,… Read More
I’m gonna try and sneak ’em in. So we used to come in through the loading dock and I would have to come in maybe a hundred feet, go up a flight of stairs and I’d be in my office. I thought if I could just get in there, get… Read More
And we come in, he’s trotting about 20 feet ahead of me and who’s the first person we walk into?… Read More
Bill Breaker, the director. I’m like, oh no. And Bucky goes walking up to him, tails Wagon and Breaker was a lover of dogs. He’s like, Hey buddy, hey, he is petting on me. Looks up. Read More
Who knew You had a unique opportunity to bring your dog to work?… Read More
That was a fun story. I was single and I had this dog actually acquired him in California when I was working on the fish farm operation. And my friend and I each got a puppy from the same litter. So when I came back to Chicago and I got… Read More
Ah, How did that happen?… Read More
Why would they have to have to do that?… Read More
And I remember when I was taking i i theology in college, I was curious about that. So I had kissing Gus, which are the same way. They would come up and breathe air occasionally. And I thought, I wonder if I could deprive them from getting to the surface. Read More
But I thought, wow, interesting. I wonder why that is. And that’s, that was all I did. I never, you know, dissected the gills or anything to figure out what was the problem. But there are some fish species that are adapted to having to breathe atmospheric air as well… Read More
Yep. Yeah, we acquired two Australian Lungfish, 1933. The then director reached out to the Australian government and for the Chicago World’s Fair, the, it was at the century of Progress World’s Fair. He wanted some unusual animals that had never been seen in the United States. And so we,… Read More
I think the one granddad, the last survivor, we actually ended up having to euthanize ’cause it had numerous organ failures, but it was kind of a cool animal, even though all it did was lay on the bottom once in a while, come up and take a breath of… Read More
Ooh, you know, might have been some of the sea horses that were difficult to come by, especially sea dragons, leafy sea dragons, Woody Wheaty, sea dragons, difficult to acquire. People had a hard time getting ’em to breed. Although several aquariums have now had success. Those were tough. The… Read More
Can you talk a little about, you mentioned the lung fish, which was one of your longevity?… Read More
Just very unusual animals that most other facilities had never heard of. Much less exhibited. Read More